Author: Maurice Herlihy

# The Aleph Toolkit Home Page

The Aleph Toolkit is a collection of Javatm packages that support distributed computations that run across networks of heterogeneous workstations. Aleph provides the ability to start threads on remote processors, to communicate by message-passing, by ordered multicast, and by shared objects (with transparent synchronization and caching).

We are releasing this version of the Aleph toolkit in the hope that it might be useful to others interested in platform-independent object-based distributed computing. We encourage comments, complaints, bug fixes, and enhancements.

Other resources:

- The Aleph Toolkit tutorial, which explains what we think we can do right now.
- The Aleph Toolkit user guide, which explains how you can try it too.
- Package documentation.
- related publications.
- The Aleph download page.

For comments, questions, or if you would like to be on the mailing list, contact `aleph@cs.brown.edu`.

This work supported by AFOSR agreement F30602-96-2-0228 DARPA OD885, and by a grant from Sun Microsystems.