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Re: [OpenCyc-devel] Capacity and response time
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From: John D. <jo...@cy...> - 2002-06-27 15:51:42
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At 05:36 PM 6/27/02 +0200, you wrote: >I would like to have a clarification on a statement in the FAQ: > >http://www.opencyc.org/OpenCyc_org/faq/faq1_html > > Q: Will the inference engine be open source? Why (not)? > > A: Effectively yes, but not quite 100% at this time. Cycorp > intends to sell premium products and services using its > inference engine, which has been designed to work with the Cyc > Knowledge Base in an optimal fashion. Cycorp provides a > reference Cyc Server executable for Intel-based Linux and for > Windows 2000 along with the release. This includes a basic > implementation of its inference engine, but no source > code. This coupled with the Cyc API is almost as powerful as > open source code. > >What is the meaning of "basic implementation"? Does Cycorp have other >better implementations? No. But the Cycorp version has more exposed access to interact with the=20 engine in more ways. >Or is it just that there are additional modules for specific uses >that's not been included? > Yes, although many of these will be included as they achieve a sufficient=20 level of maturity. Perhaps Steve can answer the following questions: >As I understand it, the whole KB is loaded into memory. And that >infered facts can be cached. > >Can OpenCyc be tuned to perform optimaly with a large KB on limited >memory? > >Can it expunge unused infered facts? > >Is there a way to just have a part of the KB in memory, storing the >larger part on disc in some ready to go format? > >-- >jo...@ri... RIT AB http://www.rit.se >Box 70, 428 21 K=E5llered Bes=F6k: G:a Riksv=E4gen 36 >Tel: +46 (0)31 751 8600 Fax: +46 (0)31 751 8609 > > >------------------------------------------------------- >Sponsored by: >ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ >_______________________________________________ >OpenCyc-devel mailing list >Ope...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opencyc-devel |