Clusters, grids and Squeak
Craig Latta
craig at netjam.org
Wed Apr 20 01:21:32 UTC 2005
Hi Joaquin--
> > What might work is starting one headfull image to act as task
> > coordinator, and devise a way to launch a bunch of very cut-down
> > headless 'worker' images.
>
> This is precisely what is needed for applications in robotics, where
> numerous low power processors do sensor signal processing and/or
> actuator control. Multitasking is replaced by parallel distributed
> computing making real time response easier to achieve with much less
> software overhead.
>
> I would like to hear from those doing work on Squeak in that
> direction.
I'm working on a system called "Spoon" which features very small object
memories (~100k), and multi-way remote message-sending. I think it would
be very good for this.
http://netjam.org/spoon
thanks,
-C
--
Craig Latta
www.netjam.org
Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)]
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