On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:25:40PM -0500, blstu...@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> Again, that's not to say that there aren't other valid motivators
> for some centralized functionality. It's just that in my opinion,
> we're at the point were if it's raw cycles we need, we'll have
> to be looking at a large cluster and not a simple CPU server.
Well there is perhaps a hint about what we disagree about. I'm not using
CPU with the strict present meaning in Plan 9 but as a _logical_
processing unit (this can actually be, in this scheme, a cluster or
whatever).
This does not invalidate the logical difference between a terminal and
"a" CPU. A node can be both a CPU (resp. member of a CPU) and a terminal
etc. The plan 9 distinction, on the usage side et on the topology,
between FileServer, CPU and Terminal is sound and fundamental IMHO.
Enough for me at the moment since, even if I have some things on the
application side, for the rest my discussion of "cloud computing" could
be a discussion about "vapor computing" ;)
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