From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ebdcfc7163c60d32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-23 10:06:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newshub.sdsu.edu!west.cox.net!cox.net!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn2feed!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D8F49D8.8000605@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Distributed programming in heterogenous platforms References: <3d8f3d90_1@news.tm.net.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:06:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.33.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1032800791 12.86.33.243 (Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:06:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:06:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29287 Date: 2002-09-23T17:06:31+00:00 List-Id: 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