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Surgeon: a packager for dynamically reconfigurable distributed applications

Surgeon: a packager for dynamically reconfigurable distributed applications

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Surgeon is a tool that helps programmers prepare software to be dynamically reconfigured. Dynamic reconfiguration environments allow programmers to change a distributed software application while it executes, but existing environments require programmers to manually adapt their software for reconfiguration. However, recent work on the automatic preparation of software for a distributed execution environment (software packaging) shows that interfacing software can be generated automatically, given abstract descriptions of the components and the desired application geometry. Surgeon merges these results so that programmers can dynamically reconfigure their applications without the overhead of manually adapting the software.

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