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To: QwikSand who wrote (21730)	10/25/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	of 64865

Qwik, bandwidth is here right now to do this kind of thing in a LAN environment - how do you think clusters stay in-sync ? Compute bound apps have been the first to take advantage of this probably due cost (cheaper) and lack of i/o demands (makes it easier to implement). I think that in the very near future we'll see a natural progression toward building distributed apps - as we build more distributed systems we understand how to distribute data as well. Here's what I think may drive it... 1. Component Software: current frameworks/languages are leading us toward distributed apps; Java is a perfect language for this sort of thing. 2. More Cost effective - can use cheaper iron. 3. More Fault Resilience - risk spread across N nodes. 4. Large SMP can scale only so far - eventually you hit kernel limits (ie. access of shared kernel resources) ... probably others... Regarding TP systems we already have multi-node configurations to distribute high-level functionality - ie. comm gateway, web server, data server. The distributed app I'm talking about is just another level (or two) more distributed. p.s. what's with the spatula comment ? Cheers James

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