Jim Anderson wrote:
It does bring up
the issue of what directions SWARM should take in the next few years.
How about sponsoring a student for Google Summer of Code?
http://code.google.com/soc
Moore's Law is finally breaking down, and so computer systems are
moving toward multi-core CPUs and multithreading. The Swarm
approach lends itself to this, and so we could oversee a project to
adapt Swarm to multithreading or just build an all new simulator
that was very lightweight and fast and really exploited all
available concurrency in a model.
If a new simulator were domain-specific, it could be easier to
design and optimize and make useful. Also if it was a relatively
simple code base, it could be compiled for FPGAs using a compiler
like Impuse C or Handel C. Some slogan like Swarm Biosimulation on a chip!