[Gzz-commits] journals/plans SA_2003.rst

[Hermanni Hyytiälä]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/fenfire
Module name:    journals
Changes by:     Hermanni Hyytiälä <address@hidden>      03/05/09 07:53:30

Modified files:
        plans          : SA_2003.rst 

Log message:
        Something about storage

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/fenfire/journals/plans/SA_2003.rst.diff?tr1=1.20&tr2=1.21&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u journals/plans/SA_2003.rst:1.20 journals/plans/SA_2003.rst:1.21
--- journals/plans/SA_2003.rst:1.20     Fri May  9 07:45:57 2003
+++ journals/plans/SA_2003.rst  Fri May  9 07:53:30 2003
@@ -132,14 +132,9 @@
        and subsequently submit those changes for consideration by a larger
        group. The software will manage all versioning.
 
-  We are building something fairly complex.
   
-  Tools for knowledge workers.
-  Make computers easier to use
-  New hypertext system - xanalogical model
-  Better/different GUIs for viewing data
-  
-  Our main areas (all strongly interrelated)
+      
+  Our main research areas:
        User interfaces
 
                Research on the new possibilities that a more hyperstructural
@@ -164,11 +159,19 @@
                - Resource Description Framework (Semantic web techologies)
 
        Storage 
-
-               - Ability to search for Xu links outside local context
-               - P2P storage of data in eternal blocks
-                 of data identified by hashes
-               - Location-independent, unique identifiers for every piece of 
data
+               
+               Our software library, named as Storage Modules (Storm) 
+               provides an alternative to traditional file-based storage.
+               Storm provides the basis for storing xanalogical data to our 
system.            
+               Storm stores data in *blocks*. A block is like a file but it 
+               cannot be changed, and instead of a file name it is identified 
by a
+               cryptographic content hash. Identifiers are 
location-independent and
+               unique identifiers. We are building a Peer-to-Peer system that 
+               allows you to find and download a block if *anybody* on the 
Internet 
+               publishes it. Currently we use distributed hash tables for 
searching blocks
+               in a distributed environment, but the use of other Peer-to-Peer 
methods 
+               are also studied.       
+               
 
        Controllers
 
@@ -186,9 +189,8 @@
   in fixed ways but multiple, really simple things that can be used with
   imagination.
   
-  Distributed software development via CVS server (free software)
-
-- schedule and intermediate objectives for the research
+  
+  - schedule and intermediate objectives for the research
    
    Peer-to-Peer networking
    Usability tests
@@ -250,8 +252,7 @@
   
 - Finnish and foreign co-operation within the project
 
-  Benjamin Fallenstein, Germany (IRC)
-  Other ?
+  ?
 
 - research environment, including the equipment to be used
 
@@ -263,8 +264,8 @@
   Academy funding
   
   
-  Funding from industrial companies
-       Demos
+  Funding from industry companies
+       
        To get funding, show off what we do etc, we need to make
        showy demos every once in a while.