Re: [9fans] Ports of Factotum and secstored

[peter huang <peter_huang@hp.com>]

I would love to see some of the grid stuff on plan9.   some of the concept
is not so different.  data grid is like file server.  computing grid is like
cpu server.  gsi can only be enhanced by factotum and secstored.

-peter

"Ronald G Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.33.0209061047410.9180-100000@xed.acl.lanl.gov...
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> > if the answer to ``what do you want from your os''
> > is ``i just want to run apps'' then don't even bother
> > with plan 9.  there are lots of things plan 9 is good at,
> > and if those are important to you, then use plan 9.
> > if all you want is apps, it's silly to use plan 9.
>
> depends. If you want to do Grid things, and you want reasonable security,
> you won't get there with Unix. There are some fundamental problems with
> e.g. Globus that in reality are due to its having to work on Unix (or NT,
> for that matter). They're not fixable.
>
> We think it should be possible to to do a real workable Grid with Plan 9.
> So it matters. (We hope to do a demo in the next few months).
>
> Unless you think the Grid is bullshit, for which belief a reasonable case
> can be made :-)
>
> ron