Andrew Gotz was the speaker and one of the developers. Hamid mentioned in passing, that he had discovered a control system design project at Livermore that has a number of similarities to our NLC design. John Woodruff is the spokesman for this group, who can talk to us about their ideas and requirements. This Control System is in the design stages, with no prototype facilities actually running. The technical goals were to define a single device model, with the capabilities seen by the applications via the API, to prodece a stable interface for Java application developers, and to migrate the control system into the Java world.
Future work continues.
This is in essense a network operating system of which there are several commercial implementations. There are a number of performance issues to be examined. This page is computed from email by Keith Jobe .