Re: [9fans] Ports of Factotum and secstored

[andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:

> But then you want to do more than just run apps.
> The selling point shouldn't be ``you can run your apps''
> but rather ``you can have your Grid and your security.''
>

that's exactly what i had in mind. that's why i'm going through
the grid papers available on globus.org and for each problem posed
there i'm finding a plan9 solution (how to use cpu cycles somewhere
else? 'cpu'; how to share resources between different machines? '9p';
how to import remote resources transparently? 'everything is a file';
how to do everything that, and, more securely? 'factotum'; and no,
you don't really need a myriad of applications and protocols to
achieve it -- it's already been done).

that's an oversimplification, i admit, but you get the general idea.
now all i have to do is make it good enough to convince ppl p9 is
worth looking at...

andrey