AV ftp ftp.cs.city.ac.uk:papersmeshixmeshix.ps.Z

AV Proceedings of UKUUG Technical conference, 1990

GP TopsyMeshix

MN June

YR 1990

PA 14

PL London


TI The Topsy project: a position paper

AU Peter Osmon

AU Tom Stiemerling

AU Andy Whitcroft

AU Tony Whittaker

AU Tim Wilkinson

AU Nick Williams

RT conference paper

OR CITY

AB This paper describes the current position of work on City
University's Topsy project. Topsy is a new message passing
multicomputer architecture.  It comprises a fully Unix compatible
distributed kernel, called Meshix, on top of a message based
software system which in turn relies on new, high speed,
communications hardware, Meshnet. An overview of the machine
architecture and operating sustem is presented together with a
discussion on the current implementation and further work