For those interested in programming languages for AI, you may want to check out:
http://flare.org/ This is a group developing a language geared exclusively towards AI development. They are affiliated with the Singularity Institute... Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 3:41 PM Subject: RE: [agi] An idea for promoting AI development. > On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 08:38, John Rose wrote: > > > > For the AI that I've been doing Windows has the essential ingredients. > > Developing these "Hunter Gatherer" nodes, they intricately exploit the > > Internet Explorer object model that is on 10 zillion Windows desktops. > > The nodes(one per machine) avoid paging penalties by keeping themselves > > way below major paging thresholds. In fact they try to keep themselves > > running healthy on machines with less than 64 megs. But to harmonize > > processing power they look for other nodes in IP address-space subsets, > > link themselves loosely, and generate/relay summary information through > > the lazy mesh. The nodes function as "constellations" but they don't > > penalize resources too much and all the glory of the IE objects are > > exploited. > > > See MOSIX under Linux. Transparent process migration, distribution, and > memory balancing across a cluster of computers. If the CPU load or > memory load is too high on one machine it transparently distributes > processes to other machines in the cluster with more free resources of > the type needed. > > It is a kernel-level patch, so no special application level programming > is required. Processes are oblivious to the fact that they are being > moved around the network as loading dictates. I don't use MOSIX myself, > but I know others that have and it has been around for several years. > It is a really slick trick for making a cluster feel like a single > machine without having to write special code in you application. Normal > process limits still apply of course, they just aren't limited by the > specific limits of the machine they may have been started on. > > -James Rogers > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------- > To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, > please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?[EMAIL PROTECTED]
