1. From Control Flow to Data Flow
ISOC Feb 18, 2002
(r)Evolutionary computation infrastructures
the next generation of distributed computers
From Control Flow to Data Flow
CollaComp
Collaborative Computing Systems
Oren Simon - CTO
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State of the art
TERAGRID
SETI
How big is big enough?
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3. Teragrid What happens when the usage scenario changes?
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SETI
What else can it do?
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5. State-of-the-Art Solutions
Bottlenecks
State-of-the-Art Solutions
are based on
Rigidly Controlled Distribution
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6. NO! Unless they learn to change
Are we asking the right questions?
Are flops, bytes and bytes-per-second the only issue?
How do big machines perform in dynamic changing conditions?
Can we design computers that are optimal for an unknown requirement?
Can we afford to constantly change our systems from the outside so that we maintain them near optimal?
NO! Unless they learn to change
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“It is not the strongest of species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
True for life forms,
True for organizations,
True for computer systems
This slide: with thanks to
Dr. Hellmuth Broda (SUN)
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8. Change is the only constant
product
rigid
bureaucratic
customer
market
flexible
matrix
In Context
dynamic
adaptive
In the post industrial revolution era - a product oriented approach was answered by a rigid and bureaucratic organization.
Knowledge was minimal at the bottom levels of the organization and theoretically the CEO was the master expert.
The entire organization was established on stability and repetition of processes.
With the shift of the guiding approach first to be market orientation and later to become customer oriented, the rigid structure was modified by introducing lateral expert nodes that served across the organization bringing specialized knowledge to where it was needed in the process.
This enabled a more flexible set-up that could better react to smaller and smaller segmentation of the market addressed by an organization.
With time, we have come to view the basic hierarchical structure as composed of professional nodes that must also provide skill and knowledge where it is needed in the process.
With the approach now turning to relational marketing driving to a market segment of one - the structure is dissolving - replaced more and more by ad-hoc value adding chains.
This is a dynamic process in which each node contributes its added value to ad-hoc processes that answer specific momentary needs.
An organizational environment becomes distributed creating a problematic challenge to its managers and process coordinators
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9. We need adaptive and instantaneous performance
multitude of tasks and services
of a
Life forms
Organizations
Computers
dynamic ever-changing environment
in a
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10. Learning from/by Ants Look at the ant, thou sluggard,
Consider her ways and be wise:
Which having no chief, overseer or ruler,
Provides her meat in the summer
Proverbs 6:6-8
And gathers her food in the harvest
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11. Tuning to the Waggle BEEt
Decision-making by colonies
Forage patch selection by honey bee colonies is an automatic outcome of the simultaneous operation of the following three basic processes:
Workers abandon floral patches of relatively low profitability,
Workers usually locate new patches by following recruitment dances, not scouting on their own,
Workers recruiting only to patches of relatively high profitability.
The net effect of these behavior patterns working in concert is a steady, gradual migration of a colony's foragers off poor and onto rich food sources.
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Emergence
Is what happens when an interconnected system of relatively simple elements self organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive, higher level behavior
ideas that emerge from nature
Emergence – Steven Johnson
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13. CollaBees™ fundamentals
A virtual organic-like environment
Creating a colony of simple computing entities
That can communicate needs to one another
And are inherently cooperative
Paradigm shift
set the rules of collaboration and define global goals
rather than
specify what each entity is to do and when.
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14. CollaBees™ by CollaComp
self-learning management software
Self-configuring high-end computation environment
Self-adapting / self-tuning for a dynamic scenario
Integration of all existing and new networked hardware.
An unmatched level of:
Scalability
fault-tolerance
low set-up, maintenance and administration costs
extremely high throughput.
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15. A colony of Busy-Bees that talk the Bees’Lingo™
CollaBees™
A colony of Busy-Bees that talk the Bees’Lingo™
A new kind of Buzzz
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