“WebOS” (Prof. Eric Brewer, et. al., UC Berkeley
The goal is to provide a common set of OS services to wide area applications, including mechanisms for:
- Resource discovery
- A global namespace
- Remote process execution
- Resource management
- Authentication
- Security
Provide services needed to build applications that are:
- Geographically distributed
- Highly available
- Incrementally scalable
- Dynamically reconfiguring