Folks,

Let me put in a plug for Ensemble, the very excellent distributed communication
system by Mark Hayden, Tim Clark and others in Ken Birman's group at Cornell.
It's written in OCAML and it makes communication between many processes on many
different machines trivial. 

Check it out at 

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/Ensemble/index.html

Chas

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