The Minnow/Aquarium project is made up of two parts:

Minnow - A programming language geared towards easily developing actor-based programs.

Aquarium - The supporting library for efficient actor-based programming. Aquarium current features:

• Low overhead actor creation, actor deletion, and messaging between actors
• The ability to isolate actors who might be unable to guarantee returning from library calls in a timely manner
• Automatic re-balancing of the actor workload across schedulers.