1 Distributed Artificial Life (DLIFE)
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3 By Richard W.M. Jones <rich@annexia.org>
8 DLIFE is a distributed version of Tom S. Ray's Tierra artificial life
9 program. Note that the machine language used is similar to but not
10 compatible with Tierra. Tom Ray talks about his work (as far as I
11 know, never completed) to create a ``Digital Reserve''. The DLIFE
12 project is a development of this.
14 In other words, it's an alternative to the tedious process of cracking
15 RC5 keys or searching for aliens. You've got a supercomputer on your
16 desk, let's go and create some life ...
18 It consists of a highly optimized engine for running the artificial
19 life cells in a virtual machine, written in C, and some Perl scripts
20 which can upload and download cells from central ``cell-bank''