Cougaar Evaluation Questions

[Aaron Helsinger]

The cougaar-developers list that you have written to is a broad audience
-- anyone doing Cougaar development and looking to trade tips and
questions on developing Cougaar applications.

Cougaar is not a single organization. There are many universities,
companies, and private individuals that use the Cougaar architecture.
Across all those groups, I know some engineers have clearances with
their respective governments.

There are many Cougaar projects, each of which can have its own release
schedule. The 'core' Cougaar architecture is typically released at least
once a year, with the next release expected in Spring 2007.

For performance data and the like, I suggest looking at some of the
published papers, listed here:  http://cougaar.org/docman/?group_id=17


The actual data throughput rates / capacity depends highly on external
things (content of the messages, the network, etc). Cougaar's messaging
systems is highly flexible, allowing you to use many mechanisms for
actual transport (Corba, RMI, etc..) and the throughput varies widely.

I dont know what the largest currently operational Cougaar system is.
Previous projects have had over 1000 large scale agents (the UltraLog
program), and there are current projects of a smaller scale. But perhaps
others can pipe in with their own current experience.

I hope this helps you get started. Feel free to ask further questions,
but Id ask that you join the mailing-list, to ensure that replies go to
the whole community.

Aaron Helsinger
BBN Technologies


Cathy L. Holmes wrote:
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> Hi,
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>  
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> I am doing a trade study on several agent technologies, and would like
> to ask a few questions regarding Cougaar.  Any assistance would be
> greatly appreciated!
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>     * Do you have any engineers that possess security clearances?
>     * How often do you typically release new software?
>     * What are your data throughput rates?
>     * What kind of data capacity do you have?
>     * Do you have any published benchmarks?
>     * What is the largest system that is presently running Cougaar
>       software?
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> Thanks!
>
>  
>
> Cathy Holmes
>
> Vision Systems and Technology
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