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2.1.4 What do we want from a Distributed System?

  1. Resource Sharing
  2. Openness
  3. Concurrency
  4. Scalability
  5. Fault Tolerance
  6. Transparency
Your Task: order the importance of each of these features for the example systems in the previous slide.

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Daniel Chalmers 2007-02-08