On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Douglas Roberts <d...@parrot-farm.net> wrote: > Interesting. Other issues that will come to play with an ABM of the > intended scales you describe are synchronization of the various asynchronous > distributed components, message passing latency, and message passing > bandwidth. Hopefully a course-grained sync & message passing design can be > developed, because http is not good for either latency or bandwidth (using > Myrinet or Infiniband for comparison).
Yeah, I'm not thinking this would be used for a single large-scale ABM for exactly the synch issues you describe. This would be more for authoring and deploying many smaller-scale applications written with an agent-oriented perspective. What Dave West talks about when he refers to how object-orientation was originally conceived not how current object-oriented programming is done. This is close to what Smalltalk/Seaside looks like but probably implemented within Javascript. -S -- --- -. . ..-. .. ... .... - .-- --- ..-. .. ... .... stephen.gue...@redfish.com (m) 505.577.5828 (o) 505.995.0206 redfish.com _ simtable.com _ sfcomplex.org _ lava3d.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
