2009/4/5 Jason Riedy <[email protected]>: > I'm more shocked that no one has written up using cfengine for > managing laptops. It seems a perfect model. With the more open > development model, perhaps it'll come back. But its competitors > are more "web 2.0 cool."
Indeed. We are all just lumbering dinosaurs here. We endlessly discuss benchmarking, performance, use of high-grade compilers, file systems which go like stink and scale like crazy, interconnects which let us use thousands of cores and tbytes of memory on the same problem at once. Do we not notice the little birds running about our feet who are twittering(*) about elastic cloud computing to the managers, and how all computing will be done via web services on the Cloud, and how their businesses should all be virtualised to the point of not having these crusty olf Frotran (Fortran! Ha!) types and their emergency stacks of punch cards. (*) pun intended. For which I should be shot at dawn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
