How will OSSAD be mobilized?
The interface between OSS and AD already exists in the form of the current meta-calculus APIs (MC7 and MC8). MC7 is the Fortran Calculus (FC) API, which has been operational on DOS since 1990, and is now operational on Linux. It was the resurrection of PROSE in a new forma native-code compiler instead of an interpretive virtual-machine compiler. Unfortunately, including the dynamic PROSE features in a static (F77) format within a single language made FC neither fish nor fowl, but a hybrid. The redesign, MC8, was therefore intended to support multiple languages. The development of MC8 compilers is the first step in the mobilization of OSSAD. Very fortunately, this task has been vastly simplified by OSS compiler work associated with parallel processing, done in Russia based on prior work in the USthe Distributed Virtual Machine (DVM) System of compilers that convert mono-computer source code to cluster-computer source code.