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Grid Computing with Plan 9 Ants

by _b8r0 on 10/13/20, 12:15 PM with 15 comments

  • by mycroftiv on 10/13/20, 2:44 PM

    If anyone is curious about what this is all about, feel free to ask, this is my project which has been ongoing in one form or another since 2008.

  • by MisterTea on 10/13/20, 1:25 PM

    FYI spawngrid is getting mothballed as there are no current users so there's simply no reason to keep it running.

    The ants distribution is also "discontinued" as it is a downstream fork of 9front. mycroftiv is a one man show and it was too much work to keep patching his kernel to stay in sync with upstream. Though you can grab the patches and get them working on 9front if your willing. (send patches and all that)

    Though the gridchat is a very active, friendly place to talk. Lots of knowledgeable people on there. Grab the gridstart and chat scripts and run it on 9front or labs plan 9. You can also get the chat script running on plan9port.

  • by notavalleyman on 10/13/20, 3:35 PM

    Offtopic, but I've always wanted to abuse ants' (the insect's) ability to find the quickest path in a grid, to make a tiny calculator or memory array, redstone style. Thought for a moment that you had done that, and got myself excited

  • by dflock on 10/13/20, 5:01 PM

    Are there any plans/possibilities to "upstream" this to 9front (or wherever is appropriate)?