> >> A Pig implementation of a CA system would be good:
> >>
> >> http://incubator.apache.org/pig/
> >
> > The spiel on that website totally freaked me out, dude.
>
> It's a higher-level language for MapReduce operations.
>
> Which means it's a way of processing data across a network of
> computers. So you can pass each cell out to a single computer and it
> will process it (more realistically every 3 cells for a CA or every 9
> cells for Life). This would allow you to process amazingly large CAs
> very quickly.
This is good stuff. Thanks Rob...
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