Re: Two questions

[Nelson Minar]

>First, what kind of mechanism does/will Swarm have for parallel computing.

In the current version of Swarm, none. We plan to support distributed
computation in upcoming versions - our scheduling abstraction has
explicit support for specifying concurrency.

>Second, I am planning to connect GRASS (a raster-based
>Geographic Information System) to Swarm, thereby allowing entities to
>(presumably) initiate calls for information to GRASS from Swarm.

great! We're very interested in seeing this happen. It's doable in
theory, but it will be a fair amount of work.