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Inter-Image communication in Smalltalk. Possible?

I have a graph-traversal problem that is beautifully and elegantly modeled in smalltalk, but it's too big (in terms of computation and storage) for one smalltalk image instance. So, I want to partition the problem across multiple instances.

My question is, is there any good way to send messages between smalltalk instances. Kind of like MPI, but for smalltalk.

I should mention that I'm on Squeak, but if there is some flavor of smalltalk with this feature, I can cope.

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Alex Avatar asked Apr 22 '09 11:04

Alex


3 Answers

There is a project named Hydra underway, with a goal to make a Squeak multi-core capable. One of the main features of Hydra are also the inter-image communication channels.

Some more information:

  • Qwaq releases Hydra multi-core Squeak VM
  • HydraVM devnotes
  • [squeak-dev] [ANN] Hydra now can do mitosis
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Janko Mivšek Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 16:11

Janko Mivšek


Have a look at Remote Smalltalk.

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Damien Pollet Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 18:11

Damien Pollet


Open Croquet is conceptually a bunch of Smalltalk images communicating with each other. Maybe it, and its Islands, might be a good fit?

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Frank Shearar Avatar answered Nov 04 '22 17:11

Frank Shearar