The Blob: A Basic Topological Concept for "Hardware-Free" Distributed Computation

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Gruau;Philippe Malbos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • UMC '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Unconventional Models of Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper is part of the Blob Computing Project, a project focusing on the development of an original model of parallelism. The model includes a language and parallel machine that is an asynchronous network of automata. The machine is to handle the placement problem. To accomplish this, it is necessary to represent data structure in a distributed "hardware-free" manner. Our solution is to encode a data structure as a system of color blobs, sharing relationships, and to ensure that these relationships are preserved during the evolution.