HP Labs Technical Reports

Concurrent Application Control in Collaborative Computing

Hao, Ming C.; Karp, Alan H.; Singh, Vineet; Chien, Jane

HPL-94-37

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Abstract: Most people think that collaboration implies that several people are sharing work on a single application with shared displays. In fact, collaboration is more. It includes the concurrent control of multiple applications by a collaborative group. To enable this more powerful form of collaboration, we show how to combine earlier mechanisms for single client, multiple server computing with a new mechanism called ESP (Event Sense Protocol) for multiple client, single server computing. We describe two extended examples - a working prototype of a multi-user, heterogeneous, parallel debugger and a commercial banking application.

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