Equus

Developed by:
University of London, UK T. Kindberg, A.V. Sahiner and Y. Parker

Short Description:
Equus is a programming model and environment for computations consisting of communicating processes which can be reconfigured at run-time. These reconfigurable distributed computations, RDCs, run at the nodes of a distributed memory multicomputer. The mod el is realized as a set of calls from C language. The system is based on a small kernel, that supports the dynamic creation, migration and destruction of processes, and the reconfiguration of communications interfaces between them.

Model: loosely coupled
Properties: micro kernel, message passing, process migration
Transparency: access, location, migration
Running on: Sun-3
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References:
T. Kindberg, A.V. Sahiner and Y. Parker: "Equus: an Environment for Reconfigurable Distributed Computations". Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London


© 1995, Alfred Lupper, Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm