The Nile fast-track implementation: fault-tolerant parallel processing of legacy CLEO data

Nile is a multi-disciplinary project building distributed parallel fault-tolerant computing for high energy physics and related fields. Nile Fast-Track is an early prototype of many key design principles of the full Nile project which is distributed computing over a wide area network. Object oriented design techniques are employed to produce a test-bed system which is extremely modular. We report on the Fast-Track project design, its status, and future plans. (author)