Xref: utzoo comp.lang.fortran:2705 comp.unix.questions:18154 comp.misc:7551 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch From: rfinch@caldwr.UUCP (Ralph Finch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.unix.questions,comp.misc Subject: Re: RPC packages for Fortran (summary) Keywords: RPC Fortran summary distributed processing ISIS Message-ID: <604@caldwr.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 89 18:43:17 GMT Distribution: na Organization: California Department of Water Resources Lines: 34 David Forslund (dwf@lanl.gov) suggested I try ISIS, available via ftp from cornell.arpa. I downloaded this and am quite impressed. It seems much easier to use than rpc, more capable, and can be called from Fortran, a big plus for me. It is discussed in the group comp.sys.isis. I enclose a brief description of it here (description excerpted from a message by ken@cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman), 9 June 88). This is to announce the availability of a public distribution of the ISIS System, a toolkit for distributed and fault-tolerant programming. The initial version of ISIS runs on UNIX on SUN, DEC, GOULD, and HP systems, although ports to other UNIX-like systems are planned for the future. No kernel changes are needed to support ISIS; you just roll it in and should be able to use it immediately. The current implementation of ISIS performs well in networks of up to about 100-200 sites. --- Who might find ISIS useful? --- You will find ISIS useful if you are interested in developing relatively sophisticated distributed programs under UNIX (eventu- ally, other systems too). These include programs that distribute computations over multiple processes, need fault-tolerance, coor- dinate activities underway at several places in a network, recover automatically from software and hardware crashes, and/or dynamically reconfigure while maintaining some sort of distri- buted correctness constraint at all times. ISIS is also useful in building certain types of distributed real time systems. -- Ralph Finch The opinions expressed herein are mine... ...ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!rfinch Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com