> From: Russell Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:42 PM, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Not talking custom hardware, when you take your existing app and > apply it to > > the distributed resource and network topology (your 100 servers) you > can > > structure it to maximize its "execution" reward. And the design of > the app > > should take the topology into account. > > That would be a very bad idea, even if there were no such thing as > cloud computing. Even if there was a significant efficiency gain to be > had that way (which there isn't, in the usual scenario where you're > talking about ethernet not some custom grid fabric), as soon as the > next hardware purchase comes along, the design over which you sweated > so hard is now useless or worse than useless. >
No, you don't lock it into an instance in time. You make it selectively scalable. When your app or your application's resources span more than one machine you need to organize that. The choice on how you do so effects execution efficiency. You could have an app now that needs 10 machines to run and 5 years from now will run on one machine yes. That is true. John ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=117534816-b15a34 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
