In comp.os.linux.advocacy, OdarR
<Olivier.Darge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote
on 18 Jan 2007 14:14:17 -0800
<1169158456.744494.278980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Roy Schestowitz a écrit :
>> Why Do Workstations No Longer Matter?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Due to the change of the working environment workstations are not
>> | the right tool to do the job anymore. They are too expensive, can
>> | be used only by single user, the data amount is too large to be
>> | downloaded and processed. Better solution is to leave the data on
>> | server and send them through fast network on computing grid. As
>> | control station either a terminal or a notebook can be used... [*HERE*] but Linux's
>> | advantage is, that it is flexible enough to be used as serverOS and on
>> | desktop.
>
> and also [HERE] :
> "Windows is currently the most advanced OS for these tasks,"...
Windows *is* the most advanced. Not in the sense of
actually being technologically sophisticated and clever
(not to mention useful, safe, and intuitive), but in the
sense that Microsoft is pushing it... ;-)
(Not that we shouldn't advance Linux here. It is, after
all, what this newsgroup is all about.)
I'll admit I'm not all that sure about grid computing,
though it's probably an idea whose time has come; certainly
Sun is advertising it. Would any of the following make
sense?
[1] A more or less traditional server room concept,
which is full of powerful grid-nodes; the workstations
on the user's desktop can connect to the grid and ask it
questions. In this guise the workstations take the place
of teletypes in the 1930's, glass tubes of the 1970's and
80's, and the X terminals of the early 1990's.
[2] A grid computer distributed around the building, with
each desktop serving as a grid-node. This gets rather
close to the notion of a "silicon brain", and could get
very interesting if one adds such things as netcams,
environmental controls (lights, air, water heating and
pumping) into the mix.
[3] Each desktop is relatively isolated, doing what its
user tells it to; transference of messages is done the
traditional way (SMTP, POP, IMAP, maybe some IM such as
IRC, GAIM, and what not, and the user has the option of
maintaining his own internal website). Some might advocate
central storage; some not.
>
> Olivier
>
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