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> Future hybrid architecture can fluidly move the line between local and distributed compute, including other-peoples-algorithms, fusing local (secure, private,
by weland 12y ago
> Future hybrid architecture can fluidly move the line between local and distributed compute, including other-peoples-algorithms, fusing local (secure, private, competitive, licensed) data/algos with public data/algos.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy graybeard, it's impressive how all of these things have been implemented at least in Plan 9 for almost twenty years now.
- walterbell 12y agoThanks for the pointer. Could you recommend any Plan9 docs on these features? Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else?
- weland 12y agoAh, crap, I saw your reply only now :(. The Plan 9 documentation is pretty good, but 9front's introductory documents ( https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa ) are probably a little better to get your feet wet with. > Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else? Both, I guess... VirtualBox is the only one I tried it on. Its distributed nature makes it fairly easy to run it on a server and connect to that from a system running Plan 9 from User Space (see http://swtch.com/plan9port/ http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ), so that you also get a... well, a functional desktop, I guess.