GreatFree as a Generic Distributed Programming Language and the Foundation of the Cloud-Side Operating System

Abstract

Abstract GreatFree is a generic distributed programming language to develop various distributed systems over the Internet-oriented computing environment. The fundamental characters of GreatFree are shaped by three essential techniques, including the message-passing, the physical-machine-visible, and the thread-visible. More important, GreatFree is equipped with three additional distinguished mechanisms, i.e., the distributed primitives, the distributed common patterns, and the distributed threads on the application level, which are sufficient to turn GreatFree into a generic distributed programming technology. To the best of our knowledge, compared with any others, GreatFree is the first one to achieve the goal. Thereafter, GreatFree is capable of exploiting distributed computing resources flexibly to adapt to any heterogeneous environments with a uniform solution. It indicates that GreatFree represents the common principles existed in various complicated computing circumstances over the Internet. That inspires that GreatFree is a proper technology to build a new concept of cloud computing environment, i.e., the cloud-side operating system, which dominates diverse distributed computing resources upon the common principles of GreatFree. Such a system is a generic development and running environment for any distributed systems. Without doubt, within the environment, GreatFree is the unique choice to program any distributed systems in a scalable manner.