From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Choate To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010106110703.01559620@mail.real.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] Re: A question of temperature... Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 13:29:18 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 45c1901e-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian wrote: > >I was wondering if anyone has looked at creating 'process clients' that > >would sit on a machine (ala seti@home) and provide transient process > >space for a Plan 9 environment within the context of a host OS (eg Win98)? > > Do you mean something like Inferno? Most concepts are similar or the > same between Plan9 and Inferno, and Inferno runs OS hosted or self hosted. seti@home has a data space that is made up of these similarly sized datasets. A 'user' of seti@home installs a client on their machine as a screen saver. So for whatever time each day your screensaver would process this block of data. When it finished it would deliver the results to a server somewhere and grab another block of data. Now consider a little program I load on my Win98 machine that simply connects to an existing Plan 9 environment as a process server. The client could define the amount of load it would place on the system. As long as my machine is on it would be available to run jobs on. This would allow you to use the processing power of systems which can't be Plan 9 boxes. My understanding of Inferno is that it's a data appliance environment/language. Intended for controlling smart vacuum cleaners and my refrigerator. It has broader uses of course. ____________________________________________________________________ Before a larger group can see the virtue of an idea, a smaller group must first understand it. "Stranger Suns" George Zebrowski The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------