Re: [Swarmfest2006] Keynote speakers

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Jim Anderson wrote:
> It does bring up
> the issue of what directions SWARM should take in the next few years. 
>   
How about sponsoring a student for Google Summer of Code?   
http://code.google.com/soc

Moore's Law is finally breaking down, and so computer systems are moving 
toward multi-core CPUs and multithreading.  The Swarm approach lends 
itself to this, and so we could oversee a project to adapt Swarm to 
multithreading or just build an all new simulator that was very 
lightweight and fast and really exploited all available concurrency in a 
model.  

If a new simulator were domain-specific, it could be easier to design 
and optimize and make useful.   Also if it was a relatively simple code 
base, it could be compiled for FPGAs using a compiler like Impuse C or 
Handel C.   Some slogan like Swarm Biosimulation on a chip!