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| Saturday, February 05, 2005 |
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Taking Full Control of Distributed Applications
The IST-funded GeneSys project has developed a middleware framework for generic distributed systems and applications supervision, eliminating the need to apply costly, proprietary, and excessively complex solutions, according to project coordinator Jean-Eric Bohdanowicz with EADS-Space Transportation. GeneSys earned a Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization Euro-SIW 2003 Award for distributed systems simulation, and the second prototype of the architecture was recently submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium in the hope that it could become a standard. Bohdanowicz says GeneSys is capable of supervising all three system layers--system, network, and applications-while the second prototype uses a communication core and agents to sustain the architecture's openness and generic characteristics..
Sourceforge: GeneSysMW
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Little Sensors, Big Bucks
Smart dust networks are being deployed in a number of test projects, just eight years after University of California computer science professor Kris Pister began researching the technology. Supervalu grocery stores use smart dust sensors to monitor the efficiency of their refrigerators, and British Petroleum monitors vibrations on tanker equipment via smart dust networks. Smart dust has moved from the laboratory to the real world in the last year, but costs and standards issues remain unresolved, though the ZigBee Alliance represents one of the largest groups behind smart dust development and is creating the standards that will underlie smart dust radio networks. The market for ZigBee devices is expected to reach 150 million units by 2008, according to In-Stat analyst Joyce Putscher; predicted applications include building control systems that turn off air conditioning in rooms when unoccupied or temperature-sensing chips that guarantee the quality of a bottle of wine to the customer. Science Applications International is researching smart dust networks that could be spread over battlefields and allow military commanders to track the movement of enemy troops. Currently, however, complete smart dust nodes that include sensors and radios cost between $25 and $125. Although there are 30 chip firms targeting the ZigBee market and others specializing in necessary components, industry insiders say companies that can integrate all the analog and digital parts needed for a smart dust mote will be successful. Intel intends to be a smart dust player even though the company has traditionally shied away from low-cost chip markets; Intel Research associate director Hans Mulder says the smart dust market will take several decades to mature, but that it eventually could outsell the CPU market."
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