Fabric is a language and runtime system that supports secure federated distributed computing. This is a quick-start manual to get you started running some Fabric examples. A more detailed manual can be found in the doc/manual directory of this distribution, or on the web at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/manual/@VERSION@/html/.
More information about Fabric, including the latest release, can be found at the Fabric website http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/.
If you use Fabric, we'd appreciate your letting us know. We welcome comments, bug reports, and discussion about Fabric on the Fabric users mailing list http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/fabric/#mailing-list. This is a low-traffic mailing list, to which we will also post notifications of new releases of Fabric and other related announcements.
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