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So, actually reading the paper. What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network

So, actually reading the paper. What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines. I like the idea. It'll be interesting to see it develop. It could be the core of the next ec2, or I guess it could be nothing.

na85 7y ago
> What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines. Sounds to me a lot like a Beowulf cluster, is it not?
- crtlaltdel 7y ago
  wow! blast from the past! last time i setup a b/w cluster was as an experiment some 12-14 years ago! I was thinking this sounds like how DCOS presents resources; buckets of cpu, ram, disc, etc.
- core-questions 7y ago
  I don't see any hot grits, or anything about Natalie Portman, so there's no way it's a Beowulf cluster.
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rmah 7y ago
Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.
- MuffinFlavored 7y ago
  Why didn't Plan9 catch on/pan out mainstream?
  - solidsnack9000 7y ago
    It was proprietary for much of its life.
  - kick 7y ago
    Plan 9 was intentionally not a product. They later tried to productize it with Inferno, but that failed primarily because it came a decade too late.
    - MisterTea 7y ago
      The Plan 9 source license was $1,000,000 USD (1.6M today). Not exactly pocket change. There was also the problem that Bell Labs didn't have a marketing team. Lucent tried to market Inferno and it did make it into a few Lucent products. If anyone is interested in Plan 9 then head over to 9front.org and grab an iso. That or there is an accompanying fork of inferno named Purgatorio of which there is now a docker image.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    The power of closed source...
    - zaphirplane 7y ago
      A lot of closed source operating systems or as they are called back then an operating system (open was the exception) were successful and failures. Just like today both closed and open OS fail
- 0xdeadb00f 7y ago
  Yeah given the description above this sounds almost exactly like it.
twic 7y ago
This sounds like basically every research operating system from the '80s and '90s. Someone come up with a retread of CORBA, please, i need the work.
snug 7y ago
Isn't this what Mesos is? http://mesos.apache.org/ http://mesos.apache.org/

na85 7y ago

> What it appears that they are doing is blowing up the concept of a 'server' entirely, and replacing the system bus with network. So you can have a bunch of 'servers' racked together which create a pool of cpus, ram, storage, and so on, all of which are connected by the network. And then they pull from this pool of resources to create vNodes which are like virtual machines. Sounds to me a lot like a Beowulf cluster, is it not?

crtlaltdel 7y ago
wow! blast from the past! last time i setup a b/w cluster was as an experiment some 12-14 years ago! I was thinking this sounds like how DCOS presents resources; buckets of cpu, ram, disc, etc.
core-questions 7y ago
I don't see any hot grits, or anything about Natalie Portman, so there's no way it's a Beowulf cluster.

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rmah 7y ago

Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.

MuffinFlavored 7y ago
Why didn't Plan9 catch on/pan out mainstream?
- solidsnack9000 7y ago
  It was proprietary for much of its life.
- kick 7y ago
  Plan 9 was intentionally not a product. They later tried to productize it with Inferno, but that failed primarily because it came a decade too late.
  - MisterTea 7y ago
    The Plan 9 source license was $1,000,000 USD (1.6M today). Not exactly pocket change. There was also the problem that Bell Labs didn't have a marketing team. Lucent tried to market Inferno and it did make it into a few Lucent products. If anyone is interested in Plan 9 then head over to 9front.org and grab an iso. That or there is an accompanying fork of inferno named Purgatorio of which there is now a docker image.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  The power of closed source...
  - zaphirplane 7y ago
    A lot of closed source operating systems or as they are called back then an operating system (open was the exception) were successful and failures. Just like today both closed and open OS fail
0xdeadb00f 7y ago
Yeah given the description above this sounds almost exactly like it.

twic 7y ago

This sounds like basically every research operating system from the '80s and '90s. Someone come up with a retread of CORBA, please, i need the work.

snug 7y ago

Isn't this what Mesos is? http://mesos.apache.org/ http://mesos.apache.org/