Dell bashes 'big iron'

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what I mean by this is, apart from those times
you need a single central fast thing (eg:
allocating unique document numbers), if indeed
there really is such a need, you can do this:

Make your software client server. But run both
the client and the server on your local PC.
However, the server software can be distributed
across your whole front office system.
Know how often PCs are idle? It's a lot even if
you're sat there typing as fast as you can type.


Other idea: have a 32 bit risc plus some ram, and
compact flash on a chip. Make racks of hundreds
of these devices, and no hard disks. Then network
them.
For a database or file server, you just splash
the content over all the thousands or more of the
compact flash chips. Searching would involve
content addressableness, as (1) you sort the data
as you're storing it [like Eric Raymond says, let
the data format do most of the work], and (2) the
relevant CPUs search their tiny subset of the
whole database, recovering data in lightning fast
time.
Nodes go down, are re-routed around and so on.
I can see PCs of the future having 2000 of these
nanoputers in them.

Posted by: hipparchus2000   Posted on: 12/08/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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