There are definitely cases when moving the code instead of the data makes sense. But that discussion is mostly unrelated to the one on how to make the file I/O work better over high-latency links.
2010/10/15 erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>: > On Fri Oct 15 12:33:19 EDT 2010, lu...@ionkov.net wrote: >> What if the data your process needs is located on more than one >> server? Play ping-pong? > > one either plays ping pong with the process or data. one > could imagine cases where the former case makes sense. > > - erik > >
