Re: [riot-devel] remote forking and scheduling

2016-06-02 Thread Arash Shafiei
Hi Raphael, Thanks for the explanations. I need to learn more about the Actor Model. Actually message passing would be fine I guess. There are two scenarios I am thinking about. The first scenario is when you are programming on a particular device (let's say for a washing machine) and you use t

Re: [riot-devel] remote forking and scheduling

2016-06-01 Thread Hiesgen, Raphael
Hi Arash, forking a process for this purpose hasn’t been on my mind yet. Do you actually need to transfer processes or is the goal to offload work depending on collected input data or … what is the advantage of forking over, let’s say, message passing? You could run a process on a backend serve

Re: [riot-devel] remote forking and scheduling

2016-06-01 Thread Kaspar Schleiser
Hey, On 06/01/2016 01:02 PM, Arash Shafiei wrote: > Has anyone worked on or thought about remote forking in the context of > Internet of Things? Well, without MMU and with the little memory we're targeting, even local forking is hard to impossible to do efficiently. > Would such thing be useful

[riot-devel] remote forking and scheduling

2016-06-01 Thread Arash Shafiei
Has anyone worked on or thought about remote forking in the context of Internet of Things? The idea is to have a fork which creates a process on another machine of the same network. Then, there would be also a scheduler to schedule those remote processes. Is there anything there related to a dist