Spread Credits

The Spread Toolkit is developed by Spread Concepts LLC.

Users, developers and researchers from around the world contribute to the Spread Toolkit, including the Distributed Systems and Networks lab (DSN) at Johns Hopkins University and the Experimental Networked Systems Lab at George Washington University.

Spread Creators
Yair Amir - yairamir at dsn.jhu.edu
Michal Miskin-Amir - michal at spreadconcepts.com
Jonathan Stanton - jstanton at gwu.edu
John Schultz - jschultz at spreadconcepts.com

Major Contributors
Ryan Caudy - contribution to process groups.
Claudiu Danilov - scalable wide-area support.
Cristina Nita-Rotaru - GC security.
Theo Schlossnagle - Perl, autoconf, old skiplist.
Dan Schoenblum - Java interface.

Contributors
Ben Laurie - FreeBSD port and warning fixes
Daniel Rall - Java & networking fixes, configuration improvements
Marc Zyngier - Windows fixes
Jacob Green - Windows support

Special Thanks
Special thanks to the following for discussions and ideas:
Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Mike Goodrich, Ben Laurie, David Shaw, Robbert VanRenesse, Gene Tsudik.

Funding
Funding is provided by Spread Concepts LLC.
Partial funding was provided by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and The National Security Agency (2000-2004).
The Spread toolkit is not necessarily endorsed by DARPA or the NSA.

For additional contributions to each Spread version, please look at the Spread Releases pages.