 Frames and agents, what do they run on? |
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 May 12 2005, 09:29 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,632 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Portland Oregon, USA Member No.: 1,304  |
OK, I have seen this mentioned before but no real discussion.
Does a frame or agent need a system with active memory equal to it's size to run on? It seems that way to me. Just as a person isn't actually uploaded into the net, niether is your agent. It must still have a CPU to run off of, IMHO. If there is an actual reference anywhere, plese let me know. Thnx |
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May 12 2005, 09:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 358 Joined: 12-May 05 From: The nearest UV host near you... Member No.: 7,390 |
They can be hosted anywhere on the matrix and they run from abiltually "anonymous" servers.
Don't worry about where they are hosted. When the decker uploads them, just assume that the decker finds a nice place to seed it's code. Since they run from an anonymous host, the can also re-locate themselves everywhere they find suitable. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we can safely assume that they got unlimited bandwidth also... |
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May 12 2005, 10:01 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
frames and agents borrow processing time from the computers they're running around on. don't ask for more details than that.
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May 12 2005, 10:02 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
when a frame or agent is fired up its uploaded to the target host by the decker, from then on its just like any other program on that host. smart frames and agents can keep working even after the decker have gone offline. dumb frames on the other hand is still connected to the deck somehow and die of the moment it looses that connection...
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May 13 2005, 01:30 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
There's a difference between deckers and frames/agents: *Deckers are stuck in a meat body. Simsense just pipes in images, sounds, and such from the Matrix. They can't project "out of body" into the Matrix. *Frames and Agents are software that can be easily loaded from one computer from another. *Therefore, the reasons that deckers can't "upload" into the Matrix are inapplicable to frames and agents. As I believe the frame/agent section of Matrix says, frames and agents don't put a burden on a decker's cyberdeck because frames and agents are uploaded to the system that is being decked. |
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May 13 2005, 01:33 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Sort of the point of dumb frames. :D |
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May 13 2005, 02:39 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
Get a utility off-board and running on someone else's "RAM." :) |
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May 13 2005, 04:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,754 Joined: 9-July 04 From: Modesto, CA Member No.: 6,465 |
Good explaination here. Every program (even AI and SK's) need to have some computer(s) somewhere running them. Just as we need air to live, the software need a computer. |
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