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

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Craig Latta
www.netjam.org
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