Re: Re: [Geneticd-devel] First step toward parallel processing is done!

[Jonny M. <jon...@ni...>]

Il 22:20, lunedì 14 gennaio 2002, Stephen Waits ha scritto:
> There are two disconnection scenarios.
>
> 1) The client is shutdown "properly" by a user or system administrator.
> In this case the client can attempt to send on its best bred individuals
> before returning control to the operating system.
>
> 2) The client is shutdown "improperly", as in the case of a modem
> disconnecting or a power-outage.  EVEN in this case, the best individuals
> from the prior generation will have been sent to other clients or the
> server (depending on your architecture) already.  This seems to work
> pretty well in my opinion.  Think of it as a massive earthquake, volcano,
> or hurricane striking one of many islands.

This is right. But The problem is:
1) Are the agent widespread among the population? if so, what will prevent 
the best agents to replicate endlessly, sterilizing the whole population?
2) Will the server be able to store a potentially endless list of agent 
locations? Will some slave act as a secondary master?

This points are still open, and, on my opinion, we'll have to left them open 
until we have a basic parallel process working. Then, we'll be able to manage 
all this topics with a better understanding.

Thanks,
Giancarlo