Byzantine Askemos Language Layer.

Ball is the first implementation of the Askemos Distributed Virtual Machine. It provides an autonomous virtual execution environment for applications, which are executed like contracts: Running processes proceed only in multilateral consensus (byzantine agreement of replicas) among a quorums of equal peers. Processes are persistent; they can communicate by passing messages to each other. Human users appear therein as processes which emit arbitrary messages at the persons discretion.

About

This white paper used to be the best one about the design. While it's old already, it's still recommented as first reading. A comparison with CouchDB might also be helpful to get a quick understanding.

Get It

1. legal: GPL license (contact here for other license conditions)
2. practical:
   1. system requirements
   2. install from source

Use It

• screen shots from starting the live system till modification of the personal web site.
• monitoring, network setup
• application programming
• examples
• manuals

Internals

• a birds eyes view on request processing

History, People & Testing

There is an ongoing self test of the development network (which serves the askemos.org website an others).

See here for people, history and details.