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| The M.O.M. Master Offloader Machine is seen with ten Basic Stamp Project Boards in a tower format. The machine is battery operated off 9-volts. Communications reports to a serial LCD at the top. MOM led to the invention of the SEED Self Evolving Enumerating Deterministic BASIC Stamp Supercomputer Life Form. |
The Master Offloader Machine was conceived from the need to offload intensive duties of the Master Computer in the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer (BSS). MOM is the first supercomputing project to show that connecting together multiple BASIC Stamp 1s and Stamp 2 flavors is possible. Contains ten BS1 processors.
This new machine, the Master Offloader, is a battery-driven collective added to the Basic Stamp Supercomputer to offload the intensive duties and responsibilities of the Master. It holds the addition of ten layers of smaller microcontroller processors (BS1 Basic Stamp Project Boards) that can potentially access half a hundred flash drives for millions of files under the SSD format. It can also free up the primary workers for more intensive processing. Connection is by wire, although a wireless system is now developed and being tested.
A serial LCD green screen mounted at the top monitors serial talk traffic as the BSS and M.O.M. communicate back and forth. M.O.M is the forerunner of the SEED Artificial Intelligence Living Basic Stamp Supercomputer.
MOM Communication
The MOM design is very interesting. Even though the BS1 has a different rate of communication compared to the design of BS2 supercomputers, the ten computers in this cluster are linked and communicating with each other. The primary Master in rack one can use specific PINS to interface to MOM at MOM's rate of communication. This adds another usage pin to the overall design on the Master. This gives complete compatibility between the BS1 and its constituent family.
Comments About the Offloader Machine as Related to the BSS
"I am impressed. Very VERY impressed. Many of us fidget with one or two interfaces rather than try to envision larger integration. The main point is that the Basic Stamp is a powerful building block and in a modular open architecture it can begin to do sophisticated things that one Basic Stamp could never achieve. There will NEVER be an end to the BasicStamps useful life in the digital world." G. Herzog/Loopy Byteloose
"I have been following your work since you first posted and you have inspired me to try several new things on my own projects.· Your a very creative person!!" Just Jeff
"Obviously the most fertile mind in hobby computing today. humanoido has once again demonstrated his DaVinci-esqe capacity to think outside the box." Ira Chandler/ Splashsplat
Hi Humanoido, Now you're moving into my world :) David Bayliss
I think its a great system Humanodo. A lot of us are learning about Stamp networking from this project... that alone is worth the time and effort (and money!) you've put into it. Ugha
Humanoido had a great idea, worked on it and showed its practical results. It may not be perfect, as anything done by human beings (or humanoid beings...), but it works and it has given a lot of people new ideas to work on. And he is continually extending and refining his project, always posting pictures and all his software code (very well documented and understandable, BTW), according to the spirit of open source projects. vrossi
Your project is awesome humanoido. The Truth is Out There
Humanoido, Thanks for the large picture with the Master Offloader Machine. The appearance, and particularly the use of specific colors, is awesome. The vertical repetition works very nicely. Keep up the good work. Mike Green
Humanoido, Using your information and descriptions I now have 2 stamps "talking" in my current bot project and you saved me a lot of time and trouble. Thanks for your assistance! Just Jeff
Humanoido: I continue to be wowed by your tireless efforts. It's nothing short of inspiring to see how far you have taken the Stamp multiplexing concept, and I appreciate the passion with which you pursue both your Supercomputer upgrades and Penguin Tech magazine. I hope to someday receive such words of praise from Mike Green as you did above.Erco
Looks like this is the most popular forum thread here! I guess it all depends on the quality of your Prefrontal Cortex? Ezsynn
Humanoido: You're always open & receptive to input from the forum, that's a great quality about you. Erco
I like the idea. SRLM
LINKS
Master Offloader Technique
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/01/master-offloader.html
Master Offloader Machine (MOM)
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=765140
REFERENCES
SEED: Self Evolving Enumerating Deterministic Basic Stamp Supercomputer. A New Evolution in Stamp Supercomputer design
The Stamp SEED Supercomputer is a new concept. This is a ten core, nine month project, with the first AI Stamp software to fit into 256 bytes eeprom - self determinate, evolving, enumerating, dreaming, poetic, noisy, talkative, and downright friendly. It runs on only one program that self evolves differently in each of the ten computers. It's evolutionary - it's revolutionary!
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/07/seed-supercomputer.html
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/07/seed-supercomputer-part-2.html
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=817126
The original Master Offloader Machine was developed for the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer in a hardware array of tandem processors. This technique is now in widespread use inside the Big Brain.
The Big Brain uses the Master Offloader technique (the technique is now upgraded to include hardware, software or both) which was developed for the BASIC Stamp Supercomputer in 2008 and 2009. Many techniques developed for the BSS are in place on the Propeller Big Brain platform. The M.O.M. is seen to the right of the BSS with ten battery operated green processor boards. Click the photo for a larger image.
The machine brain is divided up into brain quadrants. The quad includes a Propellerized Left Brain and a Right Brain. The technique of the Master Offloader is used between the Left Brain and the Right Brain. It's also used in the Quad design of the Brain. Offloading allows the Big Brain to continue functioning if one or more quadrants are busy, idle, sleeping, dreaming, disabled, errored, occupied, in stasis or powered down.
New Word Definitions
Offloading - the technique (using hardware, software or both) of offloading duties to another Brain quadrant, which allows the Big Brain to continue to function when one or more quadrants are busy, idle, sleeping, dreaming, disabled, occupied, in stasis, errored or powered down.
Original Posting
This new machine, the Master Offloader, is added to the Basic Stamp Supercomputer to offload the intensive duties and responsibilities of the Master. It holds the addition of ten layers of smaller microcontroller processors that can potentially access half a hundred flash drives for millions of files under the SSD format. It can also free up the primary workers for more intensive processing. Connection is by wire, although a wireless system is now developed and being tested. MOM (Master Offloader Machine) processing can now introduce simultaneous disk reads and writes - new paralleled clustered tasks that single drive driven processors cannot achieve. This opens up the potential for new worlds of applications never seen before, and a magnitude of unprecedented computing power at the hobby level.