The whole cloud thing as presented in this article leaves me a bit cold. I don't want software as a service, I want it as an application, running on my own computer with my own data. With open source, I can get the applications at the price I can afford, and adapt them if needed for my needs. If I need serious grunt, then no cloud will solve the supercomputing problem - regular high performance computing centres are still needed for that (although if the Grid is ever delivered not still-born, that is an alternative).
I can see some point in enterprise-wide clouds though... On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:45:13AM +0200, Jochen Fromm wrote: > The Economist has interesting articles > about cloud computing and the end of an era > in computing (by the way the Eucalyptus cloud seems to offer the same API > as Amazon EC2). > > Clash of the clouds > http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14637206 > > Battle of the clouds > http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14644393 > > -J. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
