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I spent a couple of years at Morgan Stanley and when we cut over from SunOS to Solaris they included a rollout of AFS worldwide. It was pretty successful. It wa

I spent a couple of years at Morgan Stanley and when we cut over from SunOS to Solaris they included a rollout of AFS worldwide. It was pretty successful. It was pretty mind blowing to be able to login to a Solaris workstation while visiting the NYC office and have your [local-to-London] $HOME and CDE environment just kinda sync automatically (albeit slowly back then). The administration of AFS is ... interesting, but considering this was the mid-to-late 90s, it really was "ahead of its time". FWIW, Morgan Stanley back then had an incredible UNIX Engineering department.

lizknope 4y ago
I finally got this book a couple of years ago. "MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135853249/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135853249/ I really thought AFS, DCE, and SSI (single system image) were going to take over. It was kind of depressing when I got a job and everything was NIS/NFS and we manually logged into a machine and started a job. Then we got clustering software like LFS to distribute jobs but I thought the dynamic process migration using checkpoint / restart kind of stuff would take over but it seems to be more trouble than it is worth. At work we would always run stuff off a powerful 4 to 16 CPU Sun and display to our cheaper SPARCstation 5 or Linux desktop via X11. I will say it is great now to have a virtual desktop session Exceed/NoMachine/X2go and be able to go home and connect to it and have all my windows in the same place just like when I left. I've got X2go set up at home so even when I travel I can get a desktop at home if I need it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image

lizknope 4y ago

I finally got this book a couple of years ago. "MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135853249/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0135853249/ I really thought AFS, DCE, and SSI (single system image) were going to take over. It was kind of depressing when I got a job and everything was NIS/NFS and we manually logged into a machine and started a job. Then we got clustering software like LFS to distribute jobs but I thought the dynamic process migration using checkpoint / restart kind of stuff would take over but it seems to be more trouble than it is worth. At work we would always run stuff off a powerful 4 to 16 CPU Sun and display to our cheaper SPARCstation 5 or Linux desktop via X11. I will say it is great now to have a virtual desktop session Exceed/NoMachine/X2go and be able to go home and connect to it and have all my windows in the same place just like when I left. I've got X2go set up at home so even when I travel I can get a desktop at home if I need it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Computing_Environm... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image