Ok, I've just sent it to you.
> There's an OO-based experiment at UT called CLEO/NILE, but
> there's no guarantee it would scale to our size.
Heh heh. It's a small world.
http://www.nile.utexas.edu/Nile/
CORBA, Fault tolerance, etc. I first ran across NILE almost
2 years ago. They are (were? - haven't checked recently) using
Silvano Maffeis' Electra as their core ORB. In fact, I think
they're one of the key Electra user communities around.
Aleta Ricciardi is a Cornell grad, with lots of joint papers
with Birman etc. Hmm, looking at
http://www.nile.utexas.edu/Nile/people/
I see Birman and Keith Marzullo are both listed as being
personally involved in NILE. Those are the 2 "big names"
I see on that list.
And, on a more FoRKish "interconnectedness of all things" note,
Aleta's husband, who is also a NILE collaborator
(in fact, listed as "Project Coordinator"), is Mike Ogg.
He, it turns out, used to be a physics professor at
Carleton U in Ottawa, where I went to school and where
my dad still teaches. So, Mike is "an old friend of the family",
who suddenly showed up in my CORBA/FT context quite out of the blue
2 years ago. I emailed him at the time, and that's when
he was telling me they were going with Electra.
> But, general interests aside, the more personal interest is that, effective 3
> weeks hence, I'm moving back into the software side of things, after having
> done system administration/design/troubleshooting for the last decade. Yay!
> I might even have to delurk eventually.
That would be fun! Well, if you want to learn what all that
CORBA/Java/distributed objects stuff is about, I teach that for
a living now (hint, hint :-).
Cheers++,
Wayne
Ron