From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The 9grid. In-Reply-To: <000401c36371$cd496760$2248dec2@falken> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:40:44 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a7d1c0e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Chris Hollis-Locke wrote: > What's your interpretation of "grid"? > There appear to be many to choose from. nobody can be told what 'the grid' is :) 9grid's main purpose will be to say 'ha! you see that? what you did with globus 5 years (and several tens of megabytes of code) ago could be done with Plan 9 in a couple of weeks and/or a few beers'. 9grid is the red pill for distributed computing. i'm kidding, of course :) the GRID definition that i like most is 'distributed computing across administration domains' -- i learned that during my involvement with WestGrid (www.westgrid.ca) -- and this is what 9grid may end up being. if we're lucky, it may end up as the posterchild for future grids and in a couple of years everybody and their aunt will be running Plan 9 on their nodes :) andrey ps: 'we' means 'plan 9 enthusiasts', so all of you reading this are included :)