Abstract. Distributed event-based systems (DEBS) are networks of computing devices. These systems have been successfully implemented by commercial vendors. Cloud applications depend on message passing and inter-connectivity methods exchanging data and performing inter-process communication. Both DEBS and Clouds need time-coordinated methods of control not dependent on a single time domain. While DEBS have specific implementation languages for complex events, Cloud systems do not. Clouds and DEBS have not yet presented an explicit separation of temporally based event processing from computations. Using a regulated, isomorphic, temporal architecture (RITA), a specific language and separation of temporal event processing from processing computation is achieved. RITA provides a functional programming style for developers using familiar language constructs for integration with existing processing code without forcing the developer to work in multiple coding paradigms requiring extensive "glue code" allowing coding paradigms to work together. This paper introduces RITA as a guarded condition-event system that has explicit separation of event processing and computation with constructs allowing integration of time-aware events for multiple time domains found in Cloud or existing distributed computing systems. The roots of RITA came from real-time avionics control software [30,16] and with the current move to have cloud systems handle time critical processing, so RITA is now relevant to cloud systems. These cloud systems have reached a processor interconnect scale requiring carefully controlled intra-and inter-processor communication just as avionics and telecommunications systems require [2]. RITA focuses on the real-time processing and optimal communication needs of intensive computing applications by controlling time-aware and data value sensitive guards to prevent unnecessary interruption thus allowing more CPU time for intensive computing applications. We will show that RITA is a novel service for high performance computing applications that have migrated to cloud environments.RITA is designed for event based, quantitative, time critical communication for computationally intensive applications which include communication networks, modeling and simulation, financial forecasting and trading systems, computational chemistry, and drug discovery as obvious applications. RITA can also be applied to workflow systems that are instance-intensive. These systems are unlike computationally intensive systems as they have thousand of instances per second of concurrent, often relatively simple, workflow instances.RITA is a novel minimal set of canonical event transform types that are formally defined. These transform types are used for specification ofá priori time and data values relevant to event-based data transformations. RITA is a compact event system where its elements are used in combination to build larger event processing systems. Thus, by establishing a condition-event matrix control for a DEBS, it is possible to have da...