NETWORK OF SYSTEMS BUILDS ON PARALLELISM

摘要

The technology borrows from the parallel-computing world because the development team recognizes that the model for designing, building, and operating systems is changing to one that will accommodate multiple data and processing sources that aggregate and coordinate for a coherent system-level behavior. A current example of this concept in action is how Web pages increasingly aggregate material from disparate sources and present them to a reader as a single, coherent set of material. Although the technology's developers did not specifically design it for building robotic systems, Robotics Studio has become a good first test of the underlying technology for building distributed, asynchronous systems. The technology is demonstrating its relevance outside the robotics world, such as with MySpace for managing messaging traffic, and other organizations are exploring the technology for financial- and scientific-modeling systems.