Re: [livecode] [OT] cellular automata

From: marcel corso <marcel.corso_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:28:37 +0200

Can you tell us what you want to build?
Must be like a conquer the world project if you need a whole SETI_at_home grid.





On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:48 AM, AlgoMantra <algomantra_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Even pipelining inside processors can be seen as some sort of
>> parallelization.
>> If you have a multi core processor or multiple processors you can get
>> some parallelization. What about clustering?
>
> Nah, for the kind of thing I'm talking about I need a whole SETI_at_home grid.
> Apparently, CAM-8 was the last attempt to create a computers with many
> each cell as a processor. Google it.
>
>>
>> One of my college teachers used to say that my couldn't be sure if we
>> were living in a parallelized universe or on a singled threaded :-)
>> Neither we could know if we are on a time-split system (we can get
>> frozen any moment!)
>
> Oh, well.....if I start with my cosmology, we're gonna be so off topic we'll
> never be able to come back. But yeah, digital physics fascinates me.
>
> cheers,
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