KJ,
"We should expect continued development and use of proprietary 'clustering' technology for
the forseeable future. It would not, however, IMHO, have the same capability like FC
from all the ones I've seen."
Pfister's spin on this:
"Now you would have to be deaf not to hear about clusters. All God's children got a cluster product, or two, or three, or four and are talking about them - if that's the phrase with all the power of their collective lungs. The products are mostly (not always) fairly crude, but, hey, you have to start somewhere. At least they recognize the name...."
I think it will be an uphill battle for FC. You are right of course about the geographic distance of what is being clustered and the FC advantage. The special interests of the clustering companies also needs to be carefully considered - especially when you start to get consortia backing a certain proprietary technology. I would be more comfortable if FC was at the same speeds and latencies of some of these technologies.
I of course hope you are right and FC takes over everything from clustering to replacing the Blockbusters down the street.
George D.
Reference:
Pfister GF. In Search of Clusters - The Ongoing Battle in Lowly Parallel Computing. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1998. |
