#+TITLE: Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction
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- published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
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+* General
+- This program is free software: released under Creative Commons Zero
+ (CC0) license
- Program author:
- Svjatoslav Agejenko
- - Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu
+ - Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
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+** Source code
++ Note - Sixth is currently empty parent/shell project. You can find
+ working code under [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][sub-projects]].
+
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* Vision - A tool to amplify human ability
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f
:END:
-#+BEGIN_VERSE
-Makes lots of complex data intuitive to:
- - explore, understand
- - manipulate and compute on
+Goal is, so called bicycle for the mind.
-by extensively relying on:
- - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Realtime 3D graphics]] with immediate feedback loop.
- - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Flexible and distributed computation and data storage]].
-#+END_VERSE
+A tool, that provides powerful, extensible, adaptable, hackable, easy
+to use, general purpose computing environment for working with
+knowledge.
+[[id:c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f][See extensible, programmable computing environment examples]].
-#+BEGIN_QUOTE
-“Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
-Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
-#+END_QUOTE
+I would like to create better general purpose computing environment
+with the following priorities:
-* Current status
-+ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
++ Makes data and insights easy to discover, understand, manipulate,
+ transform and visualize.
-+ In the process of implementing some of building blocks:
- - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Data storage engine.]]
++ Workflow and user interface is intuitive, visual, realtime,
+ 3D-first.
- - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][In software, pure Java realtime 3D rendering engine.]]
- - [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/][3D engine demos]]
-
-+ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
- and my free time available). Contributions welcome ! :)
+ #+BEGIN_QUOTE
+ “Virtual reality holds the key to the evolution of the human mind”
+ Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man (1992)
+ #+END_QUOTE
-* Computation ideas
-+ Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
++ Computations are done primarily in [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][on versioned data in distributed,
+ scalable, arbitrary dimensional hypercube based geometrical
+ computation engine]].
-+ Process - Currently running program.
- + Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and
- every dependent library.
++ Free and open.
- + Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at
- low level in the system.
++ Network first:
+ + Cross device:
+ + Easily switch devices and still access same data, workspaces and
+ visualizations.
+ + Easily access and combine storage and computing resources of
+ other connected devices.
- + This allows:
- + Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking
- already running processes.
+ + Ability to collaborate (multi user).
- + Easier migration of running processes between physical
- computers.
-
- + Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament
- storage.
+** Extensible, programmable computing environment examples
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: c19c5a3b-dfb0-4f7f-961c-a387b925669f
+ :END:
++ [[https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/27/one-program-to-rule-them-all/][GNU Emacs]] - At the heart, Emacs is text editor on top of Lisp
+ runtime. Data storage and computation can be done in [[https://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html][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.
+
++ [[https://www.eclipse.org/ide/][Eclipse IDE]] - In essence [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi][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)
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Notes][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.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP][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.
+
++ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access][Microsoft Access]] - Database management system that combines
+ relational database engine with a graphical user interface and
+ software-development tools.
+* Current status
++ Formulated high-level [[id:1f4e1c17-d25f-4d92-aa9b-5785f1d86f4f][vision / goal]].
- + Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
++ In the process of implementing some of [[id:52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae][building blocks]].
- + Possibility to clone/branch running process.
++ System is nowhere near complete (given magnitude of effort required
+ and almost non-existent free time available). Contributions are
+ welcome !
+* Architecture / components
+ :PROPERTIES:
+ :ID: 52dbbf4c-2ef4-42a6-8331-ad006b6a52ae
+ :END:
++ [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/][Sixth]] - Parent project.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-data/][Sixth Data]] - Data storage and computation engine.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D]] - 3D engine - for user interface and data visualization.
+ + [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d-demos/][Sixth 3D engine demos]] - Demonstration of Sixth 3D engine capabilities.
* Frequently Given Answers
- Why such name ?
- In short: it's just a number.
- Many years ago inspired by the ideas of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)][Forth (programming
- language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][Fifth]]
+ language)]] I decided to create my own implementation [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/fifth/][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.
+ - Forth/Fifth felt a bit too low-level language. So current
+ project/approach is an attempt using Java.
+* See also
+Following projects are inspiring or have similar goals:
+
++ [[https://github.com/kaveh808/kons-9][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.
+
++ [[https://gtoolkit.com/][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.
+
+** Computation on multi dimensional data
++ [[https://rd-alliance.org/system/files/Array-Databases_final-report.pdf][Array Databases: Concepts, Standards, Implementations]]
+
++ [[https://tiledb.com/][TileDB]]
+ + Analyze and share complex multi-dimensional data at scale
+
++ [[id:01aa65c1-3d44-44a8-9b90-58454bc6be80][CM-1 Connection Machine]]
+
++ [[https://lisp-stat.dev/][Lisp-Stat: An environment for Statistical Computing]]
+** Distributed, reliable, parallel computing systems
++ [[https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp][ChrysaLisp]]
+ + 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...
+
++ [[http://www.uruk.org/emu/Taos.html][TAOS]]
+ + Completely distributed operating system/virtual machine:
+
++ [[http://esug.org/data/ESUG2015/3%20wednesday/1100-1130%20SQL%20Queries%20on%20Smalltalk%20Objects/SQL%20Queries%20in%20Smalltalk%20(James%20Foster).pdf][Gemstone/S]]
+ + Completely distributed smalltalk based computing
+ system.
+
++ http://phantomos.org/
+ + Programs run forever. System crash or reboot does not destroy
+ state of running program.
+
++ [[http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665][Magma]]
+ + Multi-user object database for Squeak