The Mirror Object Steering System

The Mirror Object Steering System is an implementation of the Mirror Object Model, a new approach to program monitoring and steering. Both the Mirror Object Model and MOSS are described in the following publications:

An Object-Based Infrastructure for Program Monitoring and Steering, Greg Eisenhauer and Karsten Schwan, Proceedings of the 2nd SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools (SPDT'98), pp. 10-20, August 1998. postscript, pdf,
An Object Infrastructure for High-Performance Interactive Applications, Greg Eisenhauer. Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. June 1998. postscript

MOSS is based on a CORBA-style object system. The IDL stub generator is slightly extended to generate instrumentation in the generated _set methods. A run-time system provides support for distributed object invocations.

MOSS' supported platforms include: Sun Sparc SunOS 4.1, Sun Sparc Solaris 2.x, x86 Solaris 2.x, SGI MPIS Irix 5.x, SGI MIPS (32 and 64-bit) Irix 6.x, IBM RS6000 AIX 3.2, x86 Linux, and x86 Windows NT. A source-code release of MOSS is available as a compressed or gzip'd tar file.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9720167. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Greg Eisenhauer Last Modified Aug 1, 1998.