Guglielmo, Ok..lets chat about the technical components of Totem. What are the strengths and weaknesses? Is there scaling issues, and if so, are there some mitigation strategies from an algorithm perspective?
Feel free to elaborate...this is great stuff. Thanks, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes...awesome. Bruce had chatted with me about this too...I am very >> interested. > > Thanks. > >> Guglielmo, I would be very interested in speaking with you further on >> this. > > I am available to speak more about it. If you need my phone number, it's > six one nine, two five five, nine seven eight six. > >> This is looks like something we could heavily use. What's your thoughts? > > I think totem is a great protocol. Whether _you_ need it depends on the > application. I originally wrote this code back in 2000, and it took me > this long to find the ideal application for it. > > I would like to recommend the following article by Ken Birman (probably > the grandad of process groups): > > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=326136 > > Unfortunately you need to be a member of the acm to read it (I used to be, > but right now I am not.) This article describes his experiences using > ISIS, an early process group library, to build some interesting systems. > > Guglielmo >
