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    1 Vision / goal - A tool to amplify human ability

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    1 Vision - A tool to amplify human ability

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    -In short, this is what I want: +

    +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

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    1.1 Perfect data storage and computation engine

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    -I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine -below properties in one system would be beyond awesome. -

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    -(That`s the high level overview, details are slowly being worked -out…) -

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    3 Computation ideas

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    1.1.1 Computation

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  • Process - Currently running program.
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    • Lisp (programming language): +
    • Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and +every dependent library. + +
    • Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at +low level in the system.
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    • Smalltalk (programming language / runtime): +
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      • Everything is object. +
      • Upgrading software installed in the system without breaking +already running processes.
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      • On the fly modifiable / reprogrammable. -
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      • Anything can be suspended/resumed from persistent storage on the -fly. -
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      • GemStone/S: Awesome feature list! + +
      • Easier migration of running processes between physical +computers.
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    • Possibility to suspend/resume arbitrary processes to permament +storage.
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    • Hadoop (computation system): -
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      • Many individual connected computers behave as one big -computer. System is horizontally linearly scalable. +
      • Possibility checkpoint/revert running process.
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      • Programming abstraction and execution model that naturally divides -problems te be solved in parallel and result easily combined. + +
      • Possibility to clone/branch running process.
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      • Data is spread across nodes, automatic failover, built in -resiliency. +
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    • Small pieces of code are automatically transferred to the node -that contains relatively big data that needs processing (network -efficiency). +
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    4 Frequently Given Answers

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