From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server Message-Id: <20040203102717.1d3e60ca.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20040203094827.1471605a.martin@parvat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:27:17 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cbfaba90-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 21:34:09 -0700 (MST) ron minnich wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Martin C.Atkins wrote: > > Call me stupid, but I've yet to understand what a 'grid' really has > > to offer me. Then again, I'm not in your business :-) ! > > nobody's stupid, just things look different from different places. Thanks for your broadmindedness! > Lots of use has been made of "grids" or whatever you want to call them for > 10-15 years now. What's really, really weird is that the examples come and I'm sure that's true. And I'm not saying that grids are not extremely useful for super-computer-type computing. Just that it seems pretty irrelevant (in contrast to some of the hype?) in other problem domains. Hence... > go, and everyone forgets them. I think I'd better start a section on my > web page. I'll look forward to learning more, and particularly look out for counter-examples to my statement above (the one about irrelevance!). Thanks! Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}