Sardes is a research project located at Grenoble, France. Its members and funding come from several universities and research organizations (details here). It is the successor to the Sirac and Bull-IMAG projects. The overall goal of the Sardes project is to investigate the construction of distributed software infrastructures (operating system and middleware) to support global computing. Global computing is concerned with a projected environment in which processors will be everywhere and will be interconnected by a diverse array of networks, from ad-hoc pico networks to the global Internet. In this large scale, open, highly heterogeneous and highly dynamic context, the Sardes project aims to develop dependable and highly adaptable software infrastructures, by systematically leveraging component-based and reflective programming techniques. |