diff options
| author | kirthika <kirthika@ae88bc3d-4319-0410-8dbf-d08b4c9d3795> | 1999-10-16 17:10:22 +0000 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | kirthika <kirthika@ae88bc3d-4319-0410-8dbf-d08b4c9d3795> | 1999-10-16 17:10:22 +0000 |
| commit | 1c4138936a6244a61175e6c10096088982f72f17 (patch) | |
| tree | f6c7e53f12e67a08ed9af52268cca76293ac0e5d /TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html | |
| parent | 18dd2991e11f8a4e904e390a3d03ace67a2a06fa (diff) | |
| download | ATCD-1c4138936a6244a61175e6c10096088982f72f17.tar.gz | |
Shows the metrics related to TAO.
Diffstat (limited to 'TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html | 45 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html b/TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..dee489326bb --- /dev/null +++ b/TAO/docs/TAO-metrics.html @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +<!-- $Id$--> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<TITLE>TAO-metrics</TITLE> +<BODY> + +<BODY text = "#000000" +link="#000fff" +vlink="#ff0f0f" +bgcolor="#ffffff"> + +<HR> +<H3> TAO (ACE ORB) Metrics</H3> + +A decade of intense <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/research.html">R&D</A> has yielded <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">ACE</A>, which is an object-oriented framework that implements many core <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/patterns.html">design patterns </A> for concurrent communication software. We have applied the patterns and components in the ACE framework to develop The <EN>ACE ORB</EN> (<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html">TAO</A>), which is our <A HREF="http://www.omg.org">standards-based</A>,<A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/corba.html"> CORBA</A> middleware framework. + +TAO applies the best software practices and patterns that we have discovered in our work +on <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html">ACE</A> in order to automate the delivery of efficient, scalable, and predictable <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/corba-research-realtime.html">real-time</A> quality-of-service (QoS) to distributed applications. Both ACE and TAO are <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org">freely available</A>, <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org">open-source</A> software that been funded by the DARPA <A HREF="http://www.ito.darpa.mil/ito/research/quorum/index.html">Quorum</A> program, <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~cytron/nsf9628218/">NSF</A>, and many visionary <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-sponsors.html">industrial sponsors</A>. +<p> +The release of the first <A HREF="http://www.ociweb.com/Products/products.html">commercially supported</A> (but still open-source) version of TAO is a momentous step. This release comes at a time when open-source software is achieving critical mass, and users are not just accepting it, but recognizing its place in the mix of software development models. In particular, a rapidly increasing number of <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-users.html">projects</A> and <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-sponsors.html">sponsors</A> are applying TAO to help lower their development cost, improve their QoS, and decrease their time-to-market. + +TAO's <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-status.html">status</A> and performance has been measured over different RTOSes and with different features. Here are some pointers on obtaining more information on the evaluation and benchmarking of TAO. + +<OL> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~levine/research/RT-OS.ps.gz">TAO1.0 over different RTOSes</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE_wrappers/TAO/docs/minimumTAO.html">Minimum TAO</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/GLOBECOM-97.ps.gz">Demultiplexing Latency</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/SIGCOMM-96.ps.gz">SII Throughput</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/GLOBECOM-96.ps.gz">DII Throughput</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ICDCS-97.ps.gz">Latency, Scalability measurements</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/HICSS-97.ps.gz">IIOP</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~levine/research/words-99.ps.gz">OS support parameters</A> +<LI> <A HREF="http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE_wrappers/docs/ACE-subsets.html">Subsetting of ACE to reduce the footprint of TAO</A> +</OL> + +Thus, TAO has matured into a stable middleware framework which can be used for building high-performance, real-time distributed systems. + +</BODY> +</HTML> + + + + + + |