Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under -the terms of version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License or later as -published by the Free Software Foundation. - - -
- Program author:
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- Svjatoslav Agejenko - -
- Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu - -
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
++-Table of Contents
+ +-1 Current status
++1. General
-+-There is nothing useful for regular people yet. -
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- This program is free software: released under Creative Commons Zero +(CC0) license -
- Program author:
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- Svjatoslav Agejenko +
- Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu +
+ - Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu +
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some -working parts are already implemented: -
++- -1.1. Source code
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- First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map. - +
- Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find +working code under sub-projects. -
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.
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- 3D engine demos - -
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+ - Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format + +
- Browse Git repository online + +
+Clone Git repository using command: +
++git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git +
-+2 Vision
+++ -2. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
+-+Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind. +
+ ++A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy +to use, general purpose computing environment for working with +knowledge. +
+ ++See extensible, programmable computing environment examples. +
+ ++I would like to create better general purpose computing environment +with the following priorities: +
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- A tool to amplify human ability. - +
- Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate, +transform and visualize. -
- Properly visualizes and immerses user in completely various forms of -information and provides intuitive and powerful ways to explore, -interact and manipulate it with fast feedback loop to immediately -see results. - -
+Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime, +3D-first. +
-âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
--+3 Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future
-+-- Computations are done primarily in on versioned data in distributed, +scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical +computation engine.
+ +- Free and open.
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- Semantic networks / knowledge trees. +
- Cross device:
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- Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering. -This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because -of "Three laws safe" design, there is nothing that can go wrong. - +
- Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and +visualizations. +
- Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of +other connected devices. +
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+ - Ability to collaborate (multi user). +
- Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user -interfaces. -
+- Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an -alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha. -
+++2.1. Extensible, programmable computing environment examples
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- GNU Emacs - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp +runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in Lisp. Lisp is +on itself programmable programming language where new paradigms can +be added dynamically. Domain specific languages to fit particular +problem could be developed as needed and Emacs extended to support +those languages. Emacs provides text buffers that can be used to +build user interfaces. So you can customize Emacs and Lisp to fit +any problem domain. + +
- Eclipse IDE - In essence OSGi platform with a text +editor. Computation done in java. Eclipse provides integration, +runtime and GUI platform. One can develop Eclipse plugins to add +necessary logic and visual parts to fit any problem. (IntelliJ and +NetBeans have similar properties) + +
- IBM Notes/Domino - Custom database engine, software development +platform, GUI editor, computation can be done in Java and +LotusScript. You can build distributed business applications on it +as a platform. + +
- SAP ABAP - Custom database engine, runtime, GUI platform, +development environment and programming language. Is being used as a +platform to build business applications with any logic and UI. + +
- Microsoft Access - Database management system that combines +relational database engine with a graphical user interface and +software-development tools. +
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- Formulated high-level vision / goal. -
- Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and -processing, similar to IBM Watson. - +
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks. -
- P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system. - +
- System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are +welcome !
-4 Technical capabilities to have
++-4. Architecture / components
-+-Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization, -storage, transmission and computation capabilities. -
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- Sixth - Parent project.
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- Sixth Data - Data storage and computation engine. +
- Sixth 3D - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
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- Sixth 3D engine demos - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities. +
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-There are LOTS of existing cool technical ideas and solutions for each -challenge. It's really hard to pick the best. Here is a small list to -evaluate. -
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- Why such name ?
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- In short: it's just a number. +
- Many years ago inspired by the ideas of Forth (programming +language) I decided to create my own implementation Fifth +(computing/programming environment). +
- Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current +project/approach is an attempt using Java. +
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-4.1 Computing
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++ +-Efficient distributed computing is required. +Following projects are inspiring or have similar goals:
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- MapReduce algorithm. - -
- LLVM. - -
- Julia programming language. - -
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- kons-9: An IDE For 3D Production. The intention is to develop a +flexible and extensible system in which can be built a wide variety +of application and domain specific tools and packages. + +
- Glamorous Toolkit: Moldable development environment. It is a live +notebook. It is a flexible search interface. It is a fancy code +editor. It is a software analysis platform. It is a data +visualization engine. All in one.
+6.1. Computation on multi dimensional data
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- Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations + +
- TileDB
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- Analyze and share complex multi-dimensional data at scale +
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+ - CM-1 Connection Machine + +
- Lisp-Stat: An environment for Statistical Computing +
--4.2 Networking
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++6.2. Distributed, reliable, parallel computing systems
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- ChrysaLisp
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- Assembler/C-Script/Lisp 64 bit, MIMD, multi CPU, multi threaded, +multi core, multi user Parallel OS. With GUI, Terminal, OO +Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter, +Debugger, and more… +
- - TAOS
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- Completely distributed operating system/virtual machine: +
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- I2P: https://geti2p.net/en/ - -
- GNUnet: https://gnunet.org/ - -
- FreeNet - -
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- Completely distributed smalltalk based computing +system. +
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+ - http://phantomos.org/
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- Programs run forever. System crash or reboot does not destroy +state of running program. +
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+ - Magma
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- Multi-user object database for Squeak +
-Possible solutions: -
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