[FoRK] l.py --- musing about lisp implementations

[Jeff Bone]

On Feb 24, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Jeff Bone wrote:

> +1, though I see this and the above as, in a sense, special cases of  
> the larger problem of massively scalable concurrent computation.  I  
> hope and expect that the same basic model (shared-nothing, call-by- 
> value, process / join calculus based) may well work for both.  I  
> suspect that we'll see "application systems" [1] evolve beyond that  
> to provide services for automatically distributed applications  
> architected as process ensembles over available cores / hosts /  
> etc., optimally distributed things according to needed resources  
> (processing, storage, specialized hardware ala GPUs, even power /  
> cooling etc.  Nb, the latter's actually critically important for  
> some complex computations, in a sense what my company does these  
> days is turn electricity into money and one of our major constraints  
> is how tightly we can pack the racks due to cooling considerations...)

Ugh, one day I will proof before hitting send.

Nah, prolly not. ;-)

jb

[1] http://oreillygmt.typepad.com/scenius/2008/02/erlang-the-ceos.html