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Legion

Legion is a computer software system variously classified as a distributed operating system, a peer-to-peer system, metacomputing software, or middleware. It is an object-based system designed to provide secure, transparent access to large numbers of machines. The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, and was mostly done at the University of Virginia.

 

 


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