Personal Perspective
I have hopes that this will become an ever broader project. At present it is largely the result of my personal efforts and a number of very helpful conversations with a handfull of prospective collaborators around the world. In March 2005 I made a decision to build a Super Brain (SB). I had considered such a project for a number of years but had planned to do it on my own with software I developed on my own computers. I had nearly given up on the project as being too ambitious for someone my age. Then I decideded to just ask for help and do it anyway. At this stage I need to come up with some definition of what this SB is. I am not limiting the concept at this point. Some people thought I was speaking ofclusters of computers. It could include clusters if someone wants to provide them. I see my super brain as a distributed net of heterogeneous processors communicating, adapting like net of neurons, a neuro-like class. The objective is not to study the theory but to integrate developing technology into a useful whole capable of coping with the big problems facing the world today. There are many efforts going on that are comparable. My effort would be an approach with a different perspective. What you call a cluster would be a special case of implementing my idea in hardware but my idea includes the software to utilize the cluster, the application. I want motivated, autonomous software. I want to mechanize the development project so that it sustains itself.