Re: understanding 9grid and clustering?

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it might be worth looking at Cardelli's Obliq language/system first.
i think it does all that reasonably cleanly.
it is quite a few years old now.
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> I wonder if it would be useful to spin off threads and have them 
> executing or self-migrating to another node somewhere else on a cluster 
> or grid where there are more cycles available.

it would be very useful, yes.  difficult to implement too.  you won't
find much in linux to borrow from either.

i don't think anyone is working at adding support along those lines.

andrey

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