FARMHANDS stands for Functional Assets Required to Make Highly Available Nontrivial Distributed Systems. FARMHANDS is a research project developed by MADS Group, supported and funded by MEyC TIN2005-08986 (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain) and XUGA PGIDIT06 PXIC105164PN (Xunta de Galicia, Spain).

The project main goal is to overcome some lacks of the functional paradigm in order to develop systems with a high level of concurrency.

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