LinuxTuples is an open-source tuple space server, with associated code for writing clients, designed to run on a networked cluster of Linux/Intel boxes. The tuple space is maintained on one machine on the the network. Tuples offer a convenient and intuitive way to write parallel programs. A tuple space represents a shared communication channel allowing [...]
Lime (Linda in a Mobile Environment) is a model and middleware supporting the development of applications that exhibit physical mobility of hosts, logical mobility of agents, or both. Lime adopts a coordination perspective inspired by work on the Linda model. The context for computation, represented in Linda by a globally accessible, persistent tuple space, is [...]
JavaSpaces is a service specification providing a distributed object exchange and coordination mechanism (which may or may not be persistent) for Java objects. It is used to store the distributed system state and implement distributed algorithms. In a JavaSpace all communication partners (peers) communicate and coordinate by sharing state. JavaSpaces can be used to achieve [...]
Jini (also called Apache River) is a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems in the form of modular co-operating services. Originally developed by Sun, responsibility for Jini is being transferred to Apache under the project name “River”. Sun introduced Jini in July of 1998. In November of the same year, Sun announced that there [...]
Cryptovirology is a field that studies how to use cryptography to design powerful malicious software. The field was born with the observation that public key cryptography can be used to break the symmetry between what an antivirus analyst sees regarding a virus and what the virus writer sees. The former only sees a public key [...]
