From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <009501c4a4c4$23b73110$0fee7d50@SOMA> From: "boyd, rounin" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <1cf8231d10ac396d75931820f4603578@collyer.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] grid computing -- high performance? Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:59:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: e96429ee-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Is there something specific you're thinking of that needs doing > for each machine? i think i agree with ron here. two or three machines is sorta fun, but when it gets above 50 it gets tricky and beyond that ... lunix is unmanageable once you get to 50 machines, unless you a) like a total debacle or b) have spent a long time beating them into shape. lunix is unmanageable. the decentralisation that occurred during the '80s was a colossal failure, but those boys haven't learnt that yet. plan 9 fixed all this by centralising the compute/disk resources and moving back to the 'terminal model' [no disk, no fan] and gluing it all together with a simple, connection based, coherent, f/s protocol.