File README of Package xtreemos-vivaldi

Vivaldi implementation for XtreemOS



As quickly explained in ChangeLog and RPM spec, we've no idea of the location of the source or exact purpose for this piece of code. Here is some information found in document D3.6.4 "Requirements and specification of advanced service for mobile devices":

The aim of this document is to be the first step for the implementation of Grid services in the advanced
XtreemOS-MD version. Part of this implementation will be based on the XtreemOS general version
2.0 (PC flavour).
The use cases, which have been chosen as representative examples, are focused mainly on AEM
XtreemFS and the VO management services. These enhanced services provide a set of new features
that improve the basic version and allow developers to design more advanced Grid applications such
as JobMA, IMA and the Grid Player.
The main features of this advanced version can be summarized in the following list:
• AEM will be able to reserve Grid resources, to create dependencies among jobs and to
   provide fault tolerance mechanisms, thus allowing to run interactive jobs, active monitoring of
  jobs and job execution in multiple resources. The respective specifications define how the
 AEM must be implemented to offer those features. 
• XtreemFS will offer an offline mode and a caching in kernel features. In addition, the service
   will be improved by adding the Vivaldi algorithm that allows to decide which file replica of
  XtreemFS is the best to be used by the client in terms of the Vivaldi metrics.

Although, this may refer only to the CPP implementation existing in SVN here /garbage/mobile/xosmd-XtreemFS/1.2.2/src/xtfs_vivaldi