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| Welcome | Pile is a new, radically relationist approach to data, structures and computing. Instead of representing and storing data, Pile assimilates data by registering only relations between data elements and in effect storing only relational patterns in a novel, non-hierarchic layered structure which can be fluidly traversed. Pile enables to simulate, manipulate and interconnect arbitrary data and to reconstruct and generate user data just from relational patterns. Pile is NOT a reference tree or similar which refers to a separate body of data, but a system that generates data purely from relational patterns.
Pile is neither a data scheme, nor an indexing method. It is an efficient description of relationships between user data items of any type, any granularity, any size by explicitly separating user data from relations between user data and focusing on handling these relations only.
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 Pile Systems had to weather some storms during the last two years, but we have survived and are continuing our voyage with new vigor. Interest in Pile is slowly rising in the IT world, hopefully leading to some industrial and research projects in 2008.
We wish all Pilers and Pile friends a happy, healthy and successful new year and thank you for your continued interest and support! |
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| New Pile article (in German) published |
The German computer magazing dotnetpro (www.dotnetpro.de) in its 12/2007 issue has just published an article by Ralf Westphal describing Pile. It is part of a series of articles on pattern recognition in signal sequences. Ralf comments: "I was inspired by a project from IBM: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/ ('Shape of Song'). I am using Pile in this application as the basic unit to detect recurring patterns. So itīs part of a larger whole."
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| New experimental Pile engine available |
Ralf Westphal has developed a new persistent Pile engine which is now available with a small demo in the open source code repository at http://code.google.com/p/pile/.
Please note, though: in order to run the persistence demo (or use the persistent pile) you need to download an evaluation copy of the vistadb database engine available at http://www.vistadb.net/downloads.asp.
the vistadb eval is free of charge. |
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| Pile Systems Inc Becomes Technology Holding |
| The incubation process of Pile Systems Inc., exclusive holder of the Pile technology copyrights and patent rights, will continue with some changes due to the withdrawal of the Pile inventor from the project. |
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| FAQ and Pile Open Glossary (POGL) come to life... |
| Some of the ongoing discussions (mostly through e-mails or on the PileWorks /Sourceforge site) are being condensed into entries in our FAQ and Glossary sections. Whether you want to explain Pile to a Buddhist or learn the difference between Pile and LISP or Smalltalk, you can find it there (and use the FORUM) to discuss further or ask new questions!) |
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| We have installed RSS feeds for Pile Systems News, Downloads and Forum. For set up please look at RSS on the navigtion bar (left). |
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"Freeing Data From the Silos - A Relationistic Approach to Information Processing" is the title of a new paper by Ralf Westphal (available as pdf).
From the abstract:
"Current data processing is limited by a container-reference dichotomy. Data once stored and connected is hard to rearrange and connect in new ways required by needs that have changed over time. This paper explains an approach to remove this fundamental limitation...."
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| We have redesigned the Pile Systems website in order to turn it more into a communication platform for the emerging Pile community. There is a public Pile Forum (to post you have to register), a Pile Open Glossary (as a living, evolving glossary of Pile terms), a technical glossary, a Pile FAQ and more... As the Pile community and the Pile team grow, we will make discussions and developments more public and hope for broad participation. |
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Pile System Goes Open Source
As of today, Pile Systems Inc. will publish the source code of the Pile system, a fundamentally new approach to data and computing, under a dual licensing scheme. The patent pending software will be distributed under the GNU General Public License V.2 without warranty and incorporating a strong 'copyleft' clause, as well as under commercial license. The company sees the combination of patents for the Pile method (which has applications beyond software) and Dual Licensing/Open Source as a good compromise between maximum openness and optimal IP protection.
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