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- From: ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
- Subject: Re: A distributed computing group
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.141154.2785@cs.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
- References: <Peter.Eggan-121192143125@buckyball.aero.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:11:54 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <Peter.Eggan-121192143125@buckyball.aero.org> Peter.Eggan@aero.org (Dr. Peter C. Eggan) writes:
- >Apologies for adding to the network noise, but this seemed like the logical
- >place to inquire.
- >
- >Is there a news group dedicated to distributed computing in general, rather
- >than just isis? From just looking at group names, it doesn't appear as
- >though that area has a dedicated group. Is there any interest in one?
- >
- >I recently heard about an effort at Univ. of Illinois (NCSA) in the area of
- >distributed computing called Blanca. Is this fact, fiction or just
- >misunderstanding? Can anyone give me a pointer to follow?
-
- Most distributed computing dialog of the generic variety shows up in
- comp.os.research.
-
- I am not aware of Blanca, but would be interested in learning more.
- As for other toolkits similar to Isis, I don't think there is anything
- you can get ahold of, but the places to look are:
- - INESC (Delta-4 project). Contact Paulo Verissimo paulov@inesc.pt
- - Psync (U. Arizona). Contact Larry Peterson peterson@cs.arizona.edu
- - Transis (Hebrew U.) Contact Yair Amir yairamir@cs.hujl.il
- - Ameoba (Vrije U.) Contact Frans Kaashoek frans@cs.vj.nl
- - (name unknown) Contact Flaviu Cristian flaviu@cs.ucsd.edu
-
- I doubt that anything out there is particularly similar to Isis, but
- I am sure you can find other sorts of toolkits for other purposes.
- I omitted from my list all the systems that are transactional or that
- lack tools for things like replicated data; if one includes those you
- would have a million things on the list...
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