Request: Distributed and embedded

[m1sta]

What are the chances of the following ever being possible...

1. Create a new C# project in Visual Studio
2. Reference the Fallen dlls (C# or C++)
3. Create a Fallen instance with basic configuration (ie. potential peers, instance data store location, key to allow peers to talk securely) using a single command
4. Create a graph traversal Action that takes parameters Graph graph, Stack currentPath, PriorityQueue frontierQueue, T sharedData
5. Run the traversal using a single command (ie. graph.Traverse(action, sharedData) with sharedData being both the input and output. The traversal algorithm's designer has to deal with concurrency issues on their sharedData object.
6. Optionally create a separate project that follows steps one and two but creates an instance of a Fallen admin class that runs sharding (clustering?) algorithms in a separate process and and talks to the operational database as required.

I would love this and would be more than happy to contribute if there was an interest in this direction.

[cosh]

Morning!

1. 100%
2. 100% (see https://github.com/cosh/Fallen-8-Intro)
3. 100% no problem... use standard WCF methods
4. 100% no big deal
5. 100% did this more than once... see: https://github.com/cosh/fallen-8/blob/master/Fallen-8/Algorithms/Path/BidirectionalLevelSynchronousSSSP.cs
6. 100% but is the most time consuming one. Idea: keep it simple and use domain specific knowledge as a prerequisite

I would love to do that :). Lets make a more detailled planning soon.