*** The local/remote/backed-up distinction is a heritage of 1960's-1990's tech and consumer-grade hardware. It's not a bad distinction, it's just .. blurry, slightly archaic, rapidly-changing and we don't want to bake it into any AtomSpace specifications. ***
Yeah, fair enough, however it's still a better approximation than "one big undifferentiated Atomspace blob" ;-) Indeed we would like the core Atomese language to allow more nuanced distinctions, while allowing local/remote/backed-up distinctions to be easily made when useful... On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:35 PM Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:40 AM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> have three different statuses: Local, Remote (in RAM on some other >> machine in Distributed Atomspace) or BackedUp (disk). > > > The distinctions between these can become rather blurry. The point of > disk-backup is to not lose data, but if your data is in RAM on a remote > server, that might be enough. High-end database machines have battery-backed > disk drives, so that a powerloss to the building does not lose in-flight > transactional data. > > Compute centers often have waterfalls of 100-gigabit optical fibers splashing > out the back of the CPU's, going to the far end of the room, and attaching to > RAM and/or disks there -- this is not new; in 1995, the infiniband storage > interconnect ran tcp/ip to disk-drives and allowed remote-DMA access to RAM. > The now-defunct blue-rivers had fiber-optics going straight into the CPU > chip itself, because this used less power than toggling electrical bits on a > metal pin, thus saving on power and cooling. But it also meant that the RAM > could be as far away as your fiber-optic cable is long. The commercial > storage market has some really wild stuff out there that addresses common > issues faced by the market. The local/remote/backed-up distinction is a > heritage of 1960's-1990's tech and consumer-grade hardware. It's not a bad > distinction, it's just .. blurry, slightly archaic, rapidly-changing and we > don't want to bake it into any AtomSpace specifications. > > -- Linas > > -- > Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer. > --Peter da Silva > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAHrUA36Vhn-zFqizu6srMJ_gVbQttqt8jG-%2BOr1emD1c70X_LQ%40mail.gmail.com. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” -- Jack Kerouac -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBdZbg9uJvynUR%3DdLh5Cwwm8xEw4UNMzwOQkjYefXpHDnw%40mail.gmail.com.
