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- From: johng@oce.orst.edu (John A. Gregor)
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- Subject: Re: Sizes
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:14:53 GMT
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- In article <Bx56uF.4EK@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gardner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Gardner) writes:
- > Network connection speeds have not increased anywhere near the
- > increases in desktop performance.
-
- Tell me about it. I notice it every time I accidently meander onto an
- NFS mounted partition. When I do things, it's usually to 10's or 100's of
- MB. Ethernet is very noticeable. It's usually faster to log onto the
- machine that owns the disk.
-
- > One of the reasons is that you can simply do things faster and more
- > efficiently locally.
-
- Ummm, not with 30GB spread between 10 machines. True, this isn't
- typical, but I'm not alone either.
-
- > MOST desktop machines don't use near the capacity of their ethernet
- > connection.
-
- MOST machines spend MOST of their time running AfterDark(tm). It's the
- performance in the crunch that matters, whether you need it 16 hrs./day
- or once every 3 months. Build for the peak load.
-
- > and what could they possible do with it. Watch the soaps is my only
- > answer.....
-
- How about:
- -File mirroring/migration
- -Process migration
- -Speculative execution
- -Distributed memory
- -Distributed processing
- -Remote graphics
- -Adaptive load balancing
- -...
- -The soaps, American Gladiators, etc. :-)
-
- My guess is that the next generation's network traffic will
- -Be very bursty in nature
- -Need small latencies
- -Need very high bandwidth
- -Be system initiated (i.e. 'housekeeping' work for the system's
- benefit, never directly seen by the users)
-
- > Ethernet will be around when I retire.
- So will Bisynch, DecNet, Cobol, etc. Just a matter of how hard you
- look.
-
- -JohnG
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