Creatures And Spirals A Data Parallel Object Architecture

Creatures, a new class of cellular machine, retains many of the attractive features of Cellular Automata whilst allowing the user to describe dynamic systems an a more intuitive and efficient manner. In order to implement such a machine efficiently a generalisation on the Doubly Twisted Torus has been explored, and routing techniques developed for the surface. Such a surface has improved load balancing properties compared to traditional toroidal surfaces, while retaining the simple embedding of low dimensional structures.