| ??? 11/10/09 17:11 Read: times |
#170646 - Fish swarms and bird swarms... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Per said:
The problem is that todays programmers using todays methodology have a hard time creating working software for one processor. Creating software for clustered hardware is not easier. You get new set of problems with synchronization, consistency of data and state, recovery logic, ... I didn't say that it is simple... I'm convinced, that there are many problems today, which would profit from a multi-processing topology. Think of the problem of controlling airplanes from a tower, for instance, and the brilliant way fishes and birds in swarms do that. Think of the way the human brain can "reconfigure" after a "damage" and of the way the human brain can "learn". Think of the complex and over and over changing "multitasking" needs and capabilities of the human brain. I don't think you can solve this with "one clever master neuron", but only with "many simple neurons". Think only of the flow of information, that is needed to solve complex problems and the tiny bottle-neck a "one master neuron" would present. We are only at the very very very beginning of data processing. Again, I do not want to tell, that it is simple... Kai Klaas |
