By Mary Jo Foley
Today, Microsoft’s programming model for the cloud is .Net. At some point in the future, it may become Orleans.
Orleans is a Microsoft Research project. At Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Redmond this week, the company is showing off Orleans as one of its research demos.
Orleans is currently a project in Microsoft’s eXtreme Computing Group, which is chartered with research and development “on the cutting edge of ultrafast computing.” A prototype of Orleans exists and a couple of other Microsoft research projects, like the Horton online-query execution tool, are built on Orleans, according to company officials.
Orleans has three main components: The programming model, the programming language and tools, and a runtime system. Orleans uses standard .Net languages (currently only C#) with custom attributes, according to the Web site.
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