9P is a distributed resource sharing protocol originally developed as part of the Plan 9 research operating system at AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Alcatel/Lucent) by the Computer Science Research Center. It can be used to distributed file systems, devices, and application services. It was designed as an interface to both local and remote resources, making the transition from local to cluster to grid resources transparent.
IBM Research is currently extending and evaluating the 9p protocol for use in general-purpose operating systems (such as Linux), in specialized execution environments (such at the Libra library-OS), and for use in certain cluster and high performance computing environments.
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Last updated 24 Jul 2007