CDS Product

Elepar has made a product (very similar, though not identical, to the CDS described on these web pages) available as open source at cds-bcr.sourceforge.net. We call this dialect implementation BCR. (Why that acronym?)

What BCR offers for free:

Superior performance and increased portability, flexibility, and simplicity over message-passing approaches

A K&R C (e.g. gcc) binding

Most of the advantages of full-fledged CDS. (Most users will not notice the missing features, like contexts and special forms of composite non-blocking communication).

A remote debugging interface (opening a debugger in a window for each new process)

Software which has been built for, and interoperable between, uniprocessor and SMP versions of:

Suse Linux 7.1 on Pentium III (and probably similar)

Sun Solaris (SunOS 5.7) w/gcc

LinuxPPC 1999 Q4 on Mac G3 Powerbook ("Wallstreet")

What BCR does not (yet) offer:

Bindings for Fortran, C++, or Java

Unlimited free use: Free demo version has 30-minute execution limit per run

An extremely secure product (though it can be configured to use ssh)

Free support...BUT

Concerns mailed to feedback@elepar.com will likely receive attention.

Elepar offers support for a fee

You can express your thoughts on the CDS interface, for Elepar and perhaps others, at the CDS standardization Yahoo group