Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #21 (for Distributed Systems)

In this issue of Crossword Puzzle of the week, we will dive into the topic of Distributed Systems. The solution to the crossword puzzle is provided at the end

HINTS:

DOWN:

1. _____ is a concurrency control property which is introduced to prevent race conditions. It is the requirement that a process can not enter its critical section while another concurrent process is currently present or executing in its critical section.

2. _____ is a communication technology that is used by one program to make a request to another program for utilizing its service on a network without even knowing the network’s details.

3.  _____ applications are primarily based on the sharing of data objects between programs running on different nodes of a distributed computer system.

4.  It is one of Characteristics of Distributed Systems, that deal with the same activity or functionality that can be performed by separate users who are in remote locations. Every local system has its independent Operating Systems and Resources.

5. whenever you have given input to the system and the total time period it takes to give output so that particular time period/interval is known as _____.

ACROSS:

6. _____in a distributed system poses unique challenges that need to be considered when designing and implementing systems.

7. _____ is a process that occurs when the system spends a major portion of time transferring shared data block blocks from one node to another in comparison with the time spent on doing the useful work of executing the application process.

8. _____ is the process of working of a system in a proper way in spite of the occurrence of the failures in the system.

1. _____ is a software component that provides services between two or more applications and can be used by them.

5. _____ Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm is a permission based algorithm proposed by Lamport as an illustration of his synchronization scheme for distributed systems.

Solution for Crossword Puzzle #21:

ANSWERS:

DOWN:

1. MUTUAL EXCLUSION

2. RPC

3. GROUPWARE

4. CONCURRENCY

5. LATENCY

ACROSS:

6. SECURITY

7. THRASHING

8. FAULT TOLERANCE

1. MIDDLEWARE

5. LAMPORT