Protocol-UGP

Protocol-UGP is a distributed computing system implementing the UGEGreed protocol via TCP. The GitHub repository was created in January 2024. It was built in Java 19 with Maven, and tagged with topics: java19, maven, network-programming, rfc.

What It Is

The repository description (translated from French): "UGP - Protocol for Distributed Computing presents UGEGreed, a distributed computing system based on the TCP protocol. Designed to facilitate task distribution between applications, it allows researchers to test conjectures efficiently by distributing computations across multiple applications."

The system enables a researcher to define a mathematical conjecture, distribute the computational work of testing it across multiple machines, and collect results. The "UGE" in UGEGreed refers to Université Gustave Eiffel, the parent university of ESIPE.

Technical Scope

Protocol-UGP required implementing a custom application-layer protocol over TCP — specifying message formats, connection management, task distribution, and result aggregation. The RFC tag suggests the protocol was specified in a formal document before implementation, following the Internet RFC convention.

Java 19 (released September 2022) was current at the time. The Maven build system indicates professional tooling conventions were required by the coursework.

Position in the Curriculum

Protocol-UGP is the most technically demanding academic project in the GitHub record. It integrates network programming (the networking_java course), concurrency (the Java_Concurrence course), and distributed systems — three subjects from the final phase of the ESIPE Student Era. It appeared in January 2024, the same month as the personal portfolio site, at the end of the academic arc.

Relationship to Later Work

No direct commercial successor to Protocol-UGP appears in the founder era. The distributed systems knowledge it required did not produce a product. It represents the ceiling of academic technical complexity rather than a stepping stone to a specific commercial direction.