Another related concept is JavaSpaces....
I believe that the original Linda implementation (from which JavaSpaces
is derived) had some notion of the blackboard server doing/distributing
evaluation.
If you implemented this, would you have a better JavaSpaces?
(Info on Javaspaces is at
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/javaspaces/)
Jini is built on top of javaspaces.
-Alex-
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is an excellent question, and one that I've looked at more than
> once. Someday I may well provide an implementation of this. There are
> implementation difficulties having to do with fine-grained
> synchronization (the Rete network is not a proper tree, and separate
> paths can converge downstream,) but nothing insurmountable.
>
> Trial implementations I've done in the past showed negative speedup
> factors, largely because thread synchronization wasn't cheap. I think
> matters have improved with today's JVMs, so perhaps it's time to
> revisit the idea. I do, in fact, work on a dual-processor machine myself.
>
> I think S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> > If you are running on a multiprocessor box, is there a way to get Jess to
> > break into threads to work in parallel?
> >
> > I mean if two rules are driven by the same assertion, why not run them in
> > parallel?
> >
> > Can Jess load balance rule processing across multiple threads/CPUs?
> >
> > -Alex
> >
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