From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 18:46:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <65f6ca1c3e00b87d7582efa6b5af9f55@plan9.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd2707edc1d696fef12f97c9c448dc44@orthanc.cc.titech.ac.jp>
> There can be a intra-organization grid. But what it differs
> from a cluster?
A cluster generally assumes almost identical hardware, software and
capabilities. Intra-organizational resource sharing is considered an
example of Meta/Distributed Computing (metacomputing was the buzzword
of choice after Distributed Computing's demise and before the rise of
Grids), while Grid Computing is resource sharing across administrative
domains...
As for oxen vs. chickens -- that's a pretty tough one to decide
considering that today's commodity chicken can pull more than the
average ox. Or at least that's the impression one gets out of looking
at the SPEC site... Maybe chicken vs fleas is better, throwing in a
side note about the extinction of the Ox and how it affected the
world...
Andrey
PS: I'm too young to have cared about computers much when War Games
came out, but I've seen the pictures of the CM5 at LANL -- an Ox
composed of 64000 chickens :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-03 1:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-03 2:20 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-02-03 1:46 ` andrey mirtchovski [this message]
2004-02-03 11:09 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-03 3:16 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 4:18 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-03 4:34 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 4:57 ` Martin C.Atkins
2004-02-03 5:06 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 6:35 ` Taj Khattra
2004-02-03 5:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-03 9:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-03 15:38 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-03 15:51 ` C H Forsyth
2004-02-04 3:53 ` Jack Johnson
2004-02-04 20:48 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-05 0:29 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-05 7:21 ` Jack Johnson
2004-02-06 1:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-06 1:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-06 2:33 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-06 9:55 ` Jeff Sickel
2004-02-06 21:08 ` rog
2004-02-07 12:15 ` [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server (wavelets) Steve Simon
2004-02-09 10:20 ` [9fans] nice hardware for a cpu server Jeff Sickel
2004-02-06 4:40 ` vdharani
2004-02-06 2:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-06 14:31 ` a
2004-02-06 20:26 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-06 9:55 ` Caerwyn Jones
2004-02-06 13:31 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-06 14:57 ` a
2004-02-03 16:00 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 3:49 ` Jack Johnson
2004-02-03 4:29 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 4:45 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-03 6:21 ` vdharani
2004-02-03 6:47 ` vdharani
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-06 16:53 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-02-06 16:45 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-02-06 15:37 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-02-06 14:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-06 16:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-06 20:29 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-06 20:36 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-02-06 20:42 ` ron minnich
2004-02-06 20:45 ` Tristan Seligmann
2004-02-06 21:05 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-06 20:59 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-06 22:33 ` Geoff Collyer
2004-02-06 22:58 ` ron minnich
2004-02-07 6:54 ` David Arnold
2004-02-07 10:39 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-07 4:19 ` rob pike, esq.
2004-02-07 4:45 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-04 21:42 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-02-04 21:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-03 4:20 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-02-02 18:50 Matthias Teege
2004-02-02 23:01 ` vdharani
2004-02-02 21:10 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-03 0:27 ` vdharani
2004-02-02 23:30 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-02 23:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-02-03 0:08 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-02-03 1:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-03 1:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2004-02-03 2:25 ` boyd, rounin
2004-02-03 3:06 ` ron minnich
2004-02-03 3:04 ` ron minnich
2004-02-04 2:12 ` vdharani
2004-02-04 4:01 ` Jack Johnson
2004-02-09 10:20 ` Tomas Heran
2004-02-09 10:45 ` boyd, rounin
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