Editing Legion (software)

{{more citations needed|date=December 2014}}'''Legion''' is a [[computer software]] system variously classified as a [[distributed operating system]], a [[peer-to-peer]] system, [[metacomputing software]], and [[middleware]]. It is an object-based system designed to provide secure, transparent access to large numbers of machines, both to computational power and data.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Grimshaw |first1=A.S. |last2=Natrajan |first2=A. |date=2005 |title=Legion: Lessons Learned Building a Grid Operating System |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1398013 |journal=Proceedings of the IEEE |volume=93 |issue=3 |pages=589–603 |doi=10.1109/JPROC.2004.842764 |s2cid=5486946 |issn=1558-2256|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite report |last1=Grimshaw |first1=A. |last2=Ferrari |first2=A. |last3=Knabe |first3=F. |last4=Humphrey |first4=M. |date=1999 |title=Legion: An Operating System for Wide-Area Computing |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/900622 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |location=USA}}</ref>

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 [[intellectual property]] acquired by [[Sybase]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-08-01 |title=Legion: Overview |url=http://legion.virginia.edu/overview.html |access-date=2022-06-16 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160801051034/http://legion.virginia.edu/overview.html |archive-date=1 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Legion is the successor to Hydra, developed to run on the [[C.mmp]] hardware system developed at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in the late 1960s.

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

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[[Category:Distributed data storage]]
[[Category:Distributed operating systems]]
[[Category:University of Virginia]]
[[Category:Carnegie Mellon University]]


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