Re: Ada Annex E (Just curious :-)

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3AA29386.E60A686D@linuxchip.demon.co.uk>, Dr Adrian Wrigley says...
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>5)  What are people *actually using* this technology for?
>Flight control? Banking? Scientific computing?  What example
>real projects are there?  Is it for performance? reliability?
>controlling many remote peripherals? real-time?
>Is it generally homo- or heterogenous?

I'd like to have an answer to that one too. I don't think its really usable for
a hard real-time system, as there is no way to guarantee response time. In fact,
its tough to achieve this with any networking software. You pretty much have to
control the transmission method used for everything from the application layer
down to the physical layer.

>I would like to use something like this for programming a
>processor farm of commodity PCs, but this is tricky if the
>bandwidth can't be improved.

For a while I was looking at using it to distribute SETI@Home work units in a
hetrogenious networked environment. However, since work units in the SETI world
are typically manipulated either as files or via http, I eventually concluded
that Annex E wouldn't be the best way to go about it. I'm still looking for a
good use for Annex E...

>is "cool", easy to use and effective... all I need now is an application
>that would benefit significantly from it.

I'm with you.

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