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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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For performance data and the like, I suggest looking at some of the
published papers, listed here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cougaar.org/docman/?group_id=17">http://cougaar.org/docman/?group_id=17</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Aaron Helsinger<br>
BBN Technologies<br>
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Cathy L. Holmes wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">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!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Do you have any engineers
that possess security clearances?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">How often do you
typically release new software?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What are your data
throughput rates?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What kind of data
capacity do you have?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Do you have any published
benchmarks?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">What is the largest
system that is presently running Cougaar software?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Cathy Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Vision Systems and
Technology<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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