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9 <h1 align="center">Distributed Artificial Life</h1>
12 DLIFE is a distributed version of <a
13 href="http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/">Tom S. Ray's</a> <a
14 href="http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/tierra/">Tierra</a>
15 artificial life program. Note that the machine language used is
16 similar to but not compatible with Tierra. Tom Ray talks about
17 his work (as far as I know, never completed) to create a <a
18 href="http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/reserves/">``Digital
19 Reserve''</a>. The DLIFE project is a development of this.
23 In other words, it's an alternative to the tedious process
24 of <a href="http://www.distributed.net/">cracking RC5 keys</a>
25 or <a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/">searching
26 for aliens</a>. You've got a supercomputer on your desk,
27 let's go and create some life ...
32 <p><b>Fri Apr 5 23:03:27 BST 2002</b></p>
35 Version 1.0.0: Various fixes for Red Hat Linux 7.2.
38 <p><b>Mon Oct 16 23:11:13 BST 2000</b></p>
41 Version 0.0.16: Added another patch from Falk
42 Hueffner which improves the Debian package
46 <p><b>Sat Oct 14 15:44:27 BST 2000</b></p>
49 Version 0.0.15: Debian package (thanks to Falk Hueffner).
50 Client and soup processes now log status information to syslog.
56 All software is distributed under the terms of the
57 <a href="files/COPYING">GNU General Public License (GPL)</a>.
61 The latest version is @VERSION@, released @RELEASEDATE@.
66 <td> Source code for client and server </td>
67 <td> <a href="files/dlife-@VERSION@.tar.gz">dlife-@VERSION@.tar.gz</a> </td>
70 <td> Client: Binary RPM (for Red Hat, i686) </td>
71 <td> <a href="files/dlife-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm">dlife-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm</a> </td>
74 <td> Server: Binary RPM (for Red Hat, i686) </td>
75 <td> <a href="files/dlife-server-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm">dlife-server-@VERSION@-1.i686.rpm</a> </td>
79 <td> <a href="files/dlife-@VERSION@-1.src.rpm">dlife-server-@VERSION@-1.src.rpm</a> </td>
83 <td> <a href="files/">Various Perl RPMs which you may require ...</a> </td>
87 <p align="right"><a href="http://www.annexia.org/cgi-bin/autopatch.pl?dir=dlife">Patches from previous versions ...</a></p>
88 <p align="right"><a href="files/">Previous versions ...</a></p>
90 <h2>Documentation</h2>
93 <li> <a href="machineref.html">DLIFE machine language reference</a> <br>
94 Documents the machine language implemented in the DLIFE
95 VM, the underlying philosophy, and how it differs from
96 the original Tierra machine language.
97 <li> <a href="archref.html">DLIFE distributed architecture reference</a>
99 Documents the distributed architecture of DLIFE, how
100 the VM runs, how cells get distributed between soups,
101 and how the C VM code and Perl network code interact.
105 <address><a href="mailto:rich@annexia.org">rich@annexia.org</a></address>
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