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, both to computational power and data. Software, or program, enables a computer to perform specific tasks, as opposed to the physical components of the system (hardware). ... This article or section should include material from Distributed programming This article or section should include material from Distributed system Distributed computing is the process of aggregating the power of several computing entities to collaboratively run a single computational task in a transparent and coherent way, so that they appear... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... In computing, middleware consists of software agents acting as an intermediary between different application components. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The project was funded by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, and was mostly developed at the University of Virginia by a group led by Andrew Grimshaw. The Legion people formed the Avaki Corporation to commercialize the project in 1999, but Avaki eventually abandoned the Legion software base, and finally went bankrupt in 2005, with its IP acquired by Sybase. The logo of the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... Mentat is the name given to a macro-dataflow extension of the C++ programming language. ... Sybase Inc. ...

Legion is the successor to Hydra, developed to run on the C.mmp hardware system developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1960s. Baron Strucker, retconned founder of HYDRA, wearing the HYDRA logo on his chest. ... The C.mmp was an early multiprocessor system developed at Carnegie_Mellon_University by W.A.Wulf (1971). ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...

One of the slogans of the Legion project is "mechanism, not policy!"

External link

• legion.virginia.edu