Supercomputing
Title:Supercomputing
Author:bobr_
Published:Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:09:56 GMT

Working sub- titles: (will publish existence of each in forum when more content for each is ready)

- C multi-tasking - go beyond 8 cogs without thread headaches

- C programs larger than 32K with an hx512

- fishing without a license? ignore your limits!
aka: use an SD card and allow 2gig memory for your C app

- putting events, exceptions and "interrupts" into a C application
... without giving up strict control of timing

- mufflers, meters, valves and jets - pipes on steroids (or sockets)
to couple your cogs

- persistent memory - transparent saving
of hub data back to an EEprom

- persistent memory II - restartable programs and
crash-only software

- persistent memory III - restartable pipes!

- grow your own OS in C, be your own boss!

- C objects that can be "run" by any cog in a storm
... delayed binding and "thunks"

- what good is a bad pointer?

- how real estate issues relate to Prop connectivity
... and how DNS can help point the way to a solution

- the great YAML vs JSON vs serialize() debate...
... and how apps in C on a Prop can win either way

- access to memory in other cogs - even in other Props!

- distributed computing, content addressable cogs

- Subsumption architecture in C on a Prop or three