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Within this site hive denotes a component-orientated and plugin-based distributed computing framework. It is primarily designed to easily implement distributed software on any challenge domain with the goal to achieve nearly linear scalability. The components provided by plugins can embed widgets in the hive GUI system which comes up with the state-of-the-art Qt 4.3 GUI. Various concepts concerning user interface and communication protocols are derived from the gi-gaia project.

hive is free, open-source software and is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

This site also offers an artificial life simulator called alien (see plugins). It uses the framework to carry out simulation activities to an arbitrary number of threads (on one or even more computers) particularly for genetic algorithms.

News

2/17/2008 First article in journal published

A paper about evolutionary processes of digital creatures in alien is published in the German journal "Informatik-Spektrum". See publications in alien for more informations.

9/22/2007 alien0 version 0.5 plugin released

The alien0-plugin implements a genetic algorithm with several additional optimization strategies to generate digital organisms based on the alien-model. A documentation will shortly be available on this website.

9/9/2007 New website online

This website has gotten a completely new look (but still in simplistic design) as you can see now.

8/17/2007 hive-framework version 0.5 released

This first release provides a working distributed computing framework with all necessary functionalities. You can download the source code or binaries for Microsoft Windows.