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Sorcer Information

The Laboratory for Service-ORiented Computing EnviRonment (SORCER) is an interdisciplinary laboratory at the Computer Science Department, in Texas Tech University. The principal goal is research in network, service, and object-centric programming. Object oriented techniques are directly applied to the network, and everything on the network is treated as a service (service oriented).So, self-aware and autonomic environments are created which are conceptually a simple grid of federated network resources.These resource federations provide an execution environment for a new generation of interactive service-oriented programs. Thus, the computer is the grid of network objects.

Sorcer.Grid, a grid computing Infrastructure, is currently running on the Sorcer lab compute hosts and HPCC compute hosts. Information regarding Sorcer.Grid and Sorcer.Grid providers installation are available at Sorcer Information - PowerPoint slides.

Sorcer.Grid is based on Sun's Jini Networking Technology http://www.jini.org/. The lastest version(v2.0_001) of Jini Technology Starter Kit is available for download at http://wwws.sun.com/software/communitysource/jini/download.html.

The installation instructions are available at Sun Microsystems website, http://java.sun.com/developer/products/jini/installation_jini2_0_001.html.

An overview of Jini Technology Starter Kit is available at http://java.sun.com/developer/products/jini/arch2_0.html. Version 2.0_001 release notes are avilable at http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sloane/javaspaces/doc/release-notes/.

A set of "manual pages" has been written to assist in executing the services, utilities, and tools that are part of the JiniTechnology Starter Kit.They can be found at http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sloane/javaspaces/doc/manpages-index.html.
You can find Jini Technology Core Platform Specifications at http://java.sun.com/products/jini/2_0index.html and for more informations, please visit the website http://hep.ph.liv.ac.uk/~sloane/javaspaces/doc/info-index.html

The Inca X(TM) platform is designed specifically for Jini(TM) developers allowing them to write, test and deploy services all within the Inca X environment. For downloading and Installing Inca X Service browser for Jini(2.0), please go to the following website http://www.incax.com/index.htm?http://www.incax.com/service-browser.htm.

For more information on SORCER vist Cheif Architect Dr.Michael W. Sobolewski research page ar http://sorcer.cs.ttu.edu/.