Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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- 1. General + - -
- 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. +
- 2. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability + + +
- 3. Current status +
- 4. Architecture / components +
- 5. Frequently Given Answers +
- 6. See also + +
++1. General
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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: http://svjatoslav.eu - -
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu - +
- Svjatoslav Agejenko +
- Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu +
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu +
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+ - Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu
- other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu -
+++1.1. Source code
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- Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find +working code under sub-projects. + +
- 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 - A tool to amplify human ability
+++Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind. +
--+ -1 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
----Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
- - explore, understand
- - manipulate and compute on
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-by extensively relying on:
- - realtime 3D graphics with immediate feedback loop
- - flexible and distributed computation and data storage
++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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- Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate, +transform and visualize. + +
+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)
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-2 Current status
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- Formulated high-level vision / goal. - +
- Computations are done primarily in on versioned data in distributed, +scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical +computation engine. -
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
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- Data storage engine. - +
- Free and open. -
- In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine. +
- Network first:
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- 3D engine demos - -
+ - Cross device:
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- 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). +
- System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required -and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :) -
++- -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.
-+3 Computation ideas
+++3. Current status
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- Program - stored instructions for execution by computer. - +
- Formulated high-level vision / goal. -
- Process - Currently running program. +
- In the process of implementing some of building blocks. + +
- System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required +and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are +welcome ! +
++4. Architecture / components
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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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- Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and -every dependent library. +
- Sixth 3D engine demos - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities. +
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++5. Frequently Given Answers
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- Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at -low level in the system. - +
- 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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+- +6. See also
++-+Following projects are inspiring or have similar goals: +
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- Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking -already running processes. - +
- 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. +
- Easier migration of running processes between physical -computers. -
+++6.1. Computation on multi dimensional data
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- Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations -
- Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament -storage. - +
- TileDB
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- Analyze and share complex multi-dimensional data at scale +
- - Possibility checkpoint/revert running process. - +
- CM-1 Connection Machine -
- Possibility to clone/branch running process. - -
- Lisp-Stat: An environment for Statistical Computing
+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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- Why such name ? +
- Completely distributed operating system/virtual machine: +
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+ - Gemstone/S
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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). - -
- Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So -I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java. - -
+ - Completely distributed smalltalk based computing +system. + + +
- 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 +
--4 Frequently Given Answers
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