C-Ensemble README AUTHOR: Mark Hayden C-Ensemble is a by-hand translation of the Ensemble communication toolkit from the ML programming language to C. It includes a subset of the functionality provided by Ensemble. This software should currently be considered to be beta-quality. It has been heavily tested with the included test programs (which are pretty much the same programs used to test Ensemble). However, the software has not yet been used in production systems nearly as much as Ensemble. For more information on Ensemble please visit the home pages at: Homepage: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble/index.html Download: ftp://cs.cornell.edu/pub/ensemble/ The C-Ensemble library APIs are undocumented, but are very similar to that of Ensemble. The architecture and protocols are exactly the same as those described in the Ensemble reference manual and my thesis. A companion software distribution is available from NorthFork Networks (www.northforknet.com) that includes a number of applications and toolkit libraries built using C-Ensemble. Included with the C-Ensemble library is support for the HOT C interface, which uses the same API as the Ensemble HOT library. The HOT C interface should also be usable underneath the Ensemble Maestro C++ interface, although this has not been tested. The performance of this library should be approximately the same as that of the ML library. The advantages over the ML implementation result from the implementation in C, which means that the library does not require the use of the ML runtime library (including garbage collector), and all of the C-Ensemble API's are directly accessible from C applications. NOTE: C-Ensemble requires that IP multicast be supported on your platform. Please take a moment to read README.multicast.
