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 <div class="row"><div class="col-md-9"><h1 class="title">Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction</h1>
 <hr >
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">download latest snapshot</a>
+<li>Clone GIT repository using commanad:
+<pre class="example">
+git clone http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/sixth.git
+</pre>
 </li>
 
-<li>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
-the terms of version 3 of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> or later as
-published by the Free Software Foundation.
+<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format</a>
+</li>
+
+<li>This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.
 </li>
 
 <li>Program author:
@@ -217,175 +224,142 @@ published by the Free Software Foundation.
 </ul>
 </li>
 
-<li><a href="http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp">other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
+<li><a href="http://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/">Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a>
 </li>
 </ul>
 
 <div id="outline-container-sec-1" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="sec-1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Current status</h2>
+<h2 id="sec-1"><a id="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f" name="ID-1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f"></a><span class="section-number-2">1</span> Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</h2>
 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
-<p>
-There is nothing useful for regular people yet.
+<p class="verse">
+Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:<br >
+&#xa0;&#xa0;- explore, understand<br >
+&#xa0;&#xa0;- manipulate and compute on<br >
+<br >
+by extensively relying on:<br >
+&#xa0;&#xa0;- <a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Realtime 3D graphics</a> with immediate feedback loop.<br >
+&#xa0;&#xa0;- <a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Flexible and distributed computation and data storage</a>.<br >
 </p>
 
+
+<blockquote>
 <p>
-Sixth is presently in research / prototyping and ideas collecting phase. Some
-working parts are already implemented:
+âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
+Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
 </p>
+</blockquote>
+</div>
+</div>
 
-
+<div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Current status</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Sub projects:
+<li>Formulated high-level <a href="#sec-1">vision / goal</a>.
+</li>
+
+<li>In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-data/doc/index.html">First layer of storage: Simple persistent key-value map.</a>
+<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/">Data storage engine.</a>
 </li>
 
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html">In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.</a>
+<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.</a>
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d-demos/doc/index.html">3D engine demos</a>
+<li><a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/">3D engine demos</a>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-sec-2" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="sec-2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Vision</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>A tool to amplify human ability.
-</li>
-
-<li>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.
+<li>System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
 </li>
 </ul>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>
-âVirtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mindâ
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-</p>
-</blockquote>
 </div>
 </div>
 
 <div id="outline-container-sec-3" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future</h2>
+<h2 id="sec-3"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Computation ideas</h2>
 <div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Semantic networks / knowledge trees.
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Is able to use natural language for knowledge mining and question answering.
-This could potentially lead to self aware artificial intelligence. Because
-of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics">"Three laws safe"</a> design, there is nothing that can go wrong.
-</li>
-</ul>
+<li>Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
 </li>
 
-<li>Become an alternative to KDE, Gnome, Canonical Unity or similar desktop user
-interfaces.
-</li>
+<li>Process - Currently running program.
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
+every dependent library.
 
-<li>Become an open source scientific computing engine of structured data as an
-alternative to proprietary Wolfram Alpha.
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
+low level in the system.
 </li>
 
-<li>Become an open source solution for unstructured knowledge extraction and
-processing, similar to IBM Watson.
+<li>This allows:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
+already running processes.
 </li>
 
-<li>P2P (Peer to peer) distributed computation system.
+<li>Easier migration of running processes between physical
+computers.
 </li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
 
-<div id="outline-container-sec-4" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Technical capabilities to have</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
-<p>
-Perfect computing system must have advanced data visualization,
-storage, transmission and computation capabilities.
-</p>
+<li>Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
+storage.
+</li>
 
-<p>
-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.
-</p>
-</div>
-<div id="outline-container-sec-4-1" class="outline-3">
-<h3 id="sec-4-1"><span class="section-number-3">4.1</span> Computing</h3>
-<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-4-1">
-<p>
-Efficient distributed computing is required.
-</p>
+<li>Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
+</li>
 
-<p>
-Possible solutions:
-</p>
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>MapReduce algorithm.
+<li>Possibility to clone/branch running process.
 </li>
-<li>LLVM.
+</ul>
 </li>
-<li>Julia programming language.
+</ul>
 </li>
-<li>&#x2026;
+</ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 </div>
-<div id="outline-container-sec-4-2" class="outline-3">
-<h3 id="sec-4-2"><span class="section-number-3">4.2</span> Networking</h3>
-<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-4-2">
-<p>
-P2P secure, fast and reliable networking is required.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Possible solutions:
-</p>
 
+<div id="outline-container-sec-4" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="sec-4"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Frequently Given Answers</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
 <ul class="org-ul">
-<li>I2P: <a href="https://geti2p.net/en/">https://geti2p.net/en/</a>
+<li>Why such name ?
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>In short: it's just a number.
 </li>
-<li>GNUnet: <a href="https://gnunet.org/">https://gnunet.org/</a>
+<li>Many years ago inspired by the ideas of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)">Forth (programming
+language)</a> I decided to create my own implementation <a href="http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/">Fifth</a>
+(computing/programming environment).
 </li>
-<li>FreeNet
+<li>Then I realized I miss type safe object oriented capabilities. So
+I updated the name to Sixth and switched to Java.
 </li>
-<li>&#x2026;
+</ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
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-<li><a href="#sec-1">1. Current status</a></li>
-<li><a href="#sec-2">2. Vision</a></li>
-<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Feature ideas to implement/incorporate in the future</a></li>
-<li><a href="#sec-4">4. Technical capabilities to have</a>
-<ul class="nav">
-<li><a href="#sec-4-1">4.1. Computing</a></li>
-<li><a href="#sec-4-2">4.2. Networking</a></li>
-</ul>
-</li>
+<li><a href="#sec-1">1. Vision - A tool to amplify human ability</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-2">2. Current status</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-3">3. Computation ideas</a></li>
+<li><a href="#sec-4">4. Frequently Given Answers</a></li>
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+<p class="date">Created: 2018-06-22 Fri 02:14</p>
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