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Interesting perspective

Truth is, centrally managing "things" is easier to do than managing "things" in a distributed world. Whereas todays PCs can out-compute a 1990's Cray supercomputer, no one has been able to harness this power in an effective way. My PC today is 10x faster than my PC from a few years ago, but I still do the SAME THINGS! This means that my faster CPU is spending more time idling! That is a waste of time, electricity - MONEY.

We SHOULD be able to eliminate the server box, and distribute the computing load to ONLY clients (In a distributed world, each machine acts as BOTH a server and a client). This would eliminate single points of failure (redundancy), and cost MUCH less. A single mainframe at $2 million PLUS would be the same price as 400 $5000 workstations - each of which would be "decked out" with 4Ghz processors and 1Gb RAM. The computing power of that mainframe would be less than perhaps 50 of those workstations.

Why haven't we seen this kind of configuration? A simple answer - SOFTWARE! As I said before, its easy to write a centralized software product, but its HARD to write a distributed one. But all hope is not lost! These new multi-core processors on the market will demand new programming methodologies to parallelize processing. These new techniques can be easily extrapolated to a Grid of distributed machines! Once this is done, the only missing piece left is the Data Grid . . .

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 09/20/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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