- Therefore...we are increasingly focused on, and as ‘The Cluster Workshop’, we are calling for Distributed Compile AND Runtime Environments to empower Grid applications (especially on the Cell). To date, MPI is one of the best raw systems, while the Google App Engine is one of the best known service (that we know). The Google App Engine has: 1) A widely accepted Python 2.5 / Django code interface. 2) Serious computing power behind the environment. 3) And of course it’s Google, so we know about it. However it is propietary, in one language (Python), and may present other issues in terms of adoption (see this article as to why).
- A hypothetical scenario... what if we could build systems, such as games, that fully utilized peer-to-peer node calculations for communications, graphics rendering, and storage? Note that there are already proprietary (closed) systems out there that do this sort of thing (see here). But what if we could build strong data 'fabrics' so that these systems were more common and more accessible infrastructure for developers?
- Any ideas are welcome!