Finally! This is a good intro to what Don and I have been working on the last couple of weeks. The network is the computer .. wait .. Sun?
Here's step one, the cloud: http://www.joyent.com/accelerator Basically we're tracing the newest "hosting" technologies, and believe me, they are changing at light speed. Cloud computing is a brilliant combination of hardware/server advancement .. where small fractions of a "blade" can have its own IP address, to software that "virtualizes" these fractions into dozens of "sites". And when I say "virtualize", I DEFINITELY do NOT mean VMWare or Parallels. I mean a fascinating combination of DNS stunts with name-based sub-servers on every "site". And yes, these services offer clustered systems so you can go from a fraction of a server to multiple servers. Basically Torrents are going to replace streams, and Virtual Servers are going to replace hosting services as we once knew them. Currently the torrent part is weakest, but we believe we'll see "torrent url's" soon .. stunts where the torrent technology will not be limited to file sharing, but will be a "transport" for any layer in the Internet. To be specific, Don and I have an architecture for hosting that includes two "computers" .. one the typical shared hosting service .. but with GREAT programmer oriented services, an the other a dedicated fraction of a "blade" (with root access).. which bursts up to the full blade, or can advance to clustered. Managing this is a "DNS Management Service" .. yet another web hosting service that lets some of the requests for our domain go to the shared system, and others to the shared .. i.e. a form of load balancing. And for storage, the service has a Network Storage System (Joyent Bingo Disks) that is completely scalable, and on a 100Mb pipe. All facilities interoperable. Managing all this is a fantastic web based administration package called Virtualmin .. virtual computing administration. And we can move our Virtualmin system from Joyent to Amazon (S3/EC2) in a day, with Virtualmin's migration facilities. Its not your father's internet any more! See these: http://www.joyent.com/ http://www.virtualmin.com/ https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/ So Tom, the answer to: > Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the > U.S. -- > will ever see a fraction of this in our home? .. is very high if we in The Complex decide to work on this. The pieces are in place. -- Owen On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the > U.S. -- > will ever see a fraction of this in our home? > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023--- > > -- tj > > ========================================== > J. T. Johnson > Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA > www.analyticjournalism.com > 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) > http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. > To change something, build a new model that makes the > existing model obsolete." > -- Buckminster Fuller > ========================================== > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
