FILE: CCF/CCFccds/README CCF Collaborative Computing Frameworks Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA June 1999 CCF is a software system that supports collaborative, distributed, computer-based problem solving in the natural sciences, business, government, and in educational environments. The goal is to evolve a virtual environment for distributed computation that supports integrated human AV communication, high performance heterogeneous computing and distributed data management facilities. CCF is a research project at Emory University involving the Math/Computer Science and Chemistry departments. Recently, the Computer Science department of the University of Reading (UK) has joined the project. DISCLAIMER: This is alpha release 2.00 of CCF -- Collaborative Computing Frameworks. This software is provided as is with no warranty expressed or implied. We hope you find it useful, but we won't be held responsible for any damage that may occur from reading, compiling, installing, using, or even thinking about it. LICENSE: CCF is Copyright (C) 1996 by Emory University except for the code in directories GSM, LPC, LPC10 in the CCFaudio directory and is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL) and the GNU Library General Public License (LPGL). The files COPYING and COPYING.LIB in each directory will tell exact licensing restrictions. This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version. CREDITS: CCF was created by Vaidy Sunderam, Injong Rhee, Alan Krantz, Shun Yan Cheung, Julie Sult, Soeren Olesen, Paul Gray, Phil Hutto, Sarah Chodrow, Michael Hirsch, Ted Goddard, Mic Grigni, N. Balaguru, Jim Nettles, Luigi Marzilli, Sue Onuschak, Scott Childs, Kevin Williams. The project is internationaly collaborating with Roger Loader and James Pascoe of the department of Computer Science at The University of Reading (UK). The CCF project is sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under the multidisciplinary challenges initiative. CCF currently supports ten platforms: Mandrake Linux 6.5, Red Hat 6.0 and 6.2, SuSe Linux 6.4, TurboLinux 6.0, SunOS-5.7, SunOS-5.6, SunOS-5.5.1 and IRIX 6.2. The SunOS-5.7 version is the most thoroughly tested. OVERVIEW: The Collaborative Computing Data Space (CCDS) implements a shared object space for collaborative computing systems. With CCDS application programs access shared objects through familiar programming interfaces. COMMON PROBLEMS: ccds may leave a temporary working directory in /tmp/. COMPONENTS: This CCDS distribution consists of 3 components: - ccds_s : CCDS data server executable - libccds.a : CCDS library - ccdssh : CCDS shell user interface Note: Later distributions of CCDS will also include graphical user interface with shared editor functionality. FILES: Directory Files ------------------ ccdssh src files for ccdssh src src files for ccds_s and libccds BUILDING: CCDS is built via a top-level make. See the top-level Readme file. USING CCDS Before using CCDS set the environment varibles CCF_BIN and CCTL_WP_HOST_NAME as explained in the top-level Readme file. SEE ALSO: - ccdssh/Readme