X-Git-Url: http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Findex.html;h=bb7c5b261793d3d038f0e092e8be7d6e7f93e855;hp=9d520331eb164dd376b1d90bfc591372afa52318;hb=6cce3fedf5004c0832fa533c888c2518a32de002;hpb=4d1d84672de39f50db5e0a0cb912f222f8ce0f8d diff --git a/doc/index.html b/doc/index.html index 9d52033..bb7c5b2 100644 --- a/doc/index.html +++ b/doc/index.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Sixth - system for data storage, computation, exploration and interaction - + @@ -217,24 +217,23 @@ published by the Free Software Foundation. -
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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 love thease existing solutions and properties: -

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  • Git (version control system) +
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    3 Computation ideas

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    • Versionable +
    • Program - stored instructions for execution by computer.
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    • Branchable / mergeable. + +
    • Process - Currently running program. +
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      • Process is self contained. Has a full copy of program code and +every dependent library. + +
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        • Memory used by processes is content addressed/deduplicated at +low level in the system.
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        • Transparent cansistency, checksumming and deduplication. + +
        • This allows: + + +
        • 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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    -I hate to choose between good things. Figuring out a way to combine -above properties in one system would be beyond awesome. -

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    -(I have not solved it yet..) -

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    2 Current status

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