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<title>Kali Scheme</title>
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<h1>Kali Scheme</h1>
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Kali Scheme is a distributed implementation of Scheme that permits
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efficient transmission of higher-order objects such as closures and
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continuations. The integration of distributed communication
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facilities within a higher-order programming language engenders a
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number of new abstractions and paradigms for distributed computing.
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Among these are user-specified load-balancing and migration policies
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for threads, incrementally-linked distributed computations, and
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parameterized client-server applications.
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Kali Scheme supports concurrency and communication using first-class
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procedures and continuations. It integrates procedures and continuations
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into a message-based distributed framework that allows any Scheme object
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(including code vectors) to be sent and received in a message. Some of
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the applications and implementation techniques we have looked at using
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Kali Scheme include:
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<DD> User-level load balancing and migration.
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<DD> Incremental distributed linking of code objects.
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<DD> Parameterized client-server applications.
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<DD> Long-lived parallel computations.
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<DD> Distributed data mining.
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<DD> Executable content in messages over wide-area networks
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(e.g. the World-Wide Web)
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<H2>Related papers</H2>
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Kali Scheme is described in
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/pls/toplas95.ps">
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Higher-Order Distributed Objects
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</A>,
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, September 1995.
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Papers on Kali Scheme and related
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topics can be found <A HREF="ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/pls"> here</A>.
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<H2>Availability</H2>
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Kali is (finally) ftp-able.
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Click
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<A HREF="ftp://ftp.nj.nec.com/pub/pls/kali-0.47.tar.gz">
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here
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</A>
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to get a tar'd gzip'd distribution.
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<p>
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<H2>A depiction of the goddess Kali</H2>
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<img src="Kali.gif">
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