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I would like to see a few consumers participate, as well as someone from
PRC staff. There are implications of which just these few groups
would not necessarily be aware.<br><br>
At 02:58 PM 4/7/2008 -0600, David Breecker wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.<br><br>
If that makes sense, I'll volunteer for service. Thoughts?<br>
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On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite 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/" eudora="autourl">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 class=cite cite="">Let's see now: what are the odds
we in New Mexico -- hell, in the <br>
U.S. --<br>
will ever see a fraction of this in our home?</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 class=cite cite="">Let's see now: what are the odds
we in New Mexico -- hell, in the <br>
U.S. --<br>
will ever see a fraction of this in our home?<br><br>
<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><br>
-- tj<br><br>
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