Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: tuna@kanchenjunga.lcs.mit.edu (Kirk Johnson)
Subject: Announcing CRL 1.0, an all-software DSM system
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology-ology-O
Date: 13 Sep 1995 12:53:08 GMT
Message-ID: <436k7k$h29@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Version 1.0 of the C Region Library (CRL) is now available for
public consumption.

CRL is a simple all-software distributed shared memory system
intended for use on message-passing multicomputers and
distributed systems. CRL 1.0 can be compiled for use on the MIT
Alewife Machine, Thinking Machine's CM-5, and networks of Sun
workstations running SunOS 4.1.3 communicating with one another
using TCP and PVM. Because CRL requires no functionality from
the underlying hardware, compiler, or operating system beyond
that necessary to send and receive messages, porting CRL to
other platforms should prove to be straightforward.

General information about CRL can be found on the top-level CRL
WWW page:

    http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/crl/

The CRL 1.0 source distribution (sources for CRL 1.0 and several
applications, user documentation, and a postscript version of a
paper about CRL to appear in this SOSP later this year) is
available via WWW at the following URL:

    http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/crl/source.html

(Non-web users can obtain the distribution via anonymous ftp
from cag.lcs.mit.edu in /pub/crl/crl-1.0.tar.gz.)

Those interested in reading more about CRL before fetching the
source distribution should point their web browers at

    http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/crl/crl-sosp-15.html

where they will find the abstract of the SOSP paper and link
they can follow to obtain a compressed postscript version of the
paper. (Non-web users can obtain the paper via anonymous ftp
>from cag.lcs.mit.edu in /pub/papers/crl-sosp-15.ps.Z.)

Share and enjoy!

Kirk Johnson
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