 During 1995, we will be extending Horus to provide extremely low latency, high performance <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/rvr/papers/rt/novsdav.html"> real-time </a> capabilities.  Our approach combines elements of a communication technology called <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/ATM/hoti-94.html">Active Messages</a> with a multi-media playback system called <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/Projects/multimedia/mm_home.html">Continuous Media</a>.  By the end of the year, we expect to  demonstrate high speed interactive applications with remote multimedia servers, such as might be used in remote telemedicine applications or video on demand systems.  All of this will retain the existing fault-tolerance and security options of Horus, and its virtual synchrony programming model. <p>
