<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Back to Tom's original question: I'd like to propose that National Lambda Rail, NM Lambda Rail, the NMCAC, the 1st Mile Institute, and the Governor's Science and Technology Advisor would be an appropriate ad hoc task force to see if and how The Grid could reach us here.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If that makes sense, I'll volunteer for service. Thoughts?</div><div>db</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>dba | David Breecker Associates, Inc.</div><div>Santa Fe: 505-690-2335</div><div>Abiquiu: 505-685-4891</div><div><a href="http://www.BreeckerAssociates.com">www.BreeckerAssociates.com</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Finally! This is a good intro to what Don and I have been working on <br>the last couple of weeks. The network is the computer .. wait .. Sun?<br><br>Here's step one, the cloud:<br> <a href="http://www.joyent.com/accelerator">http://www.joyent.com/accelerator</a><br>Basically we're tracing the newest "hosting" technologies, and believe <br>me, they are changing at light speed.<br><br>Cloud computing is a brilliant combination of hardware/server <br>advancement .. where small fractions of a "blade" can have its own IP <br>address, to software that "virtualizes" these fractions into dozens of <br>"sites". And when I say "virtualize", I DEFINITELY do NOT mean VMWare <br>or Parallels. I mean a fascinating combination of DNS stunts with <br>name-based sub-servers on every "site". And yes, these services offer <br>clustered systems so you can go from a fraction of a server to <br>multiple servers.<br><br>Basically Torrents are going to replace streams, and Virtual Servers <br>are going to replace hosting services as we once knew them. Currently <br>the torrent part is weakest, but we believe we'll see "torrent url's" <br>soon .. stunts where the torrent technology will not be limited to <br>file sharing, but will be a "transport" for any layer in the Internet.<br><br>To be specific, Don and I have an architecture for hosting that <br>includes two "computers" .. one the typical shared hosting service .. <br>but with GREAT programmer oriented services, an the other a dedicated <br>fraction of a "blade" (with root access).. which bursts up to the full <br>blade, or can advance to clustered.<br><br>Managing this is a "DNS Management Service" .. yet another web hosting <br>service that lets some of the requests for our domain go to the shared <br>system, and others to the shared .. i.e. a form of load balancing. <br>And for storage, the service has a Network Storage System (Joyent <br>Bingo Disks) that is completely scalable, and on a 100Mb pipe. All <br>facilities interoperable.<br><br>Managing all this is a fantastic web based administration package <br>called Virtualmin .. virtual computing administration. And we can <br>move our Virtualmin system from Joyent to Amazon (S3/EC2) in a day, <br>with Virtualmin's migration facilities.<br><br>Its not your father's internet any more!<br><br>See these:<br> <a href="http://www.joyent.com/">http://www.joyent.com/</a><br> <a href="http://www.virtualmin.com/">http://www.virtualmin.com/</a><br> <a href="https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/">https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/</a><br><br>So Tom, the answer to:<br><blockquote type="cite">Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">U.S. --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">will ever see a fraction of this in our home?<br></blockquote>.. is very high if we in The Complex decide to work on this. The <br>pieces are in place.<br><br> -- Owen<br><br><br>On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">U.S. --<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">will ever see a fraction of this in our home?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023---">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023---</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- tj<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">==========================================<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">J. T. 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