Re: Distributed programming in heterogenous platforms

[Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Adrian Hoe wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am having a project which is going to be developed using gnat and 
> glade. This is a distributed computing involved heterogenous platforms. 
> For a start, a small heterogenous platforms will be setup with two Sun 
> Solaris workstations and a dual cpu Intel Xeon workstation running Linux.
> 
> Before bumping my head into the project, I like to gather as much 
> information about distributed programming in heterogenous platforms.
> 
> Can anyone provide me pointers, experience, websites, sample codes and 
> etc. for reference?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

This reference is a bit indirect, but the problem is the same.

I worked on some robotic systems for the U.S. Army. The Army was interested
in developing an architecture allowing modules from various vendors,
implemented using different languages and hardware, to work together.
They developed the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems (JAUGS).

This is primarily a message based architecture. The messages are defined
independent of any language, with a specified byte order. Messages can be
separated into two broad classifications; periodic messages and events.

The architecture is defined at http://www.jaugs.org/

Jim Rogers