CCF: A Framework for Collaborative Computing

The Collaborative Computing Frameworks (CCF) is a toolkit developed at Emory University to enable cooperative scientific or technical work to be conducted without regard to geographical location. CCF views collaboration as comprising of application sharing, data exchange and manipulation, computational transforms, and communication. This article describes the CCF architecture, including its transport subsystem, virtual desktop, application-sharing tools, auxiliary communication tools, and data management and communication subsystems. It reviews the current status of the software and the results of its application in two different environments.