On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking at alternative ways to break through the 4G 1 core border.
Does anyone have recent experience storing data in multiple images
and parallelizing calculations, perhaps similar to
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/.../nsdi12-final138.pdf?

With Ghost, Fuel and �Zinc the building blocks seem to be there.

Well, if you are interested in this topic, you should read about Marea, my PhD:

Journal paper: http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/papers/Mart12c-JOT-Marea.pdf

PhD thesis:�http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/archives/phd/PhD-2012-Martinez-Peck.pdf

The idea between Marea is an object graph swapper to move around unused objects in order to use less primary memory.

Now, being Fuel able to serialize closures and methods is something very interested for this kind of stuff. For example, this is use RemoteTask:�http://wiki.squeak.org:8080/squeak/6176.

It is also used by Nick Papulias to do remote programming. Regarding database, we are making progress in Oak also, a database based in Fuel+NoSQL:�http://goran.krampe.se/2012/12/29/oak/

Best,�

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Stephan