Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language)

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Well, yes, but I don't think theres any way of getting it free of charge. If
the program you have is not designed to be distributed, it would be really
tough for the OS to figure out what parts of it to distribute. If you broke
it up into tasks, then obviously, the OS stands a reasonable chance of
distributing the tasks. If you've gone that far in designing your
application, you can clearly find a way to make it distributed through your
own manual methods - but it would be nice for the OS to just do it for you.

I recall that at one point in time, Pratt & Whitney designed a distributed
application for doing computational fluid dynamics. At night, all the Sun
workstations they had could be put to work solving problems that used to
require quite a bit of time on a Cray supercomputer. When they got it
working, they fired the Cray and just used cheap Sun labor. It worked pretty
well.

MDC
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Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrnaobid8.5e7.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
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> Yes. This should be great for clustering shouldn't it? I don't know so
> much about it, but can't you use the distributedness to easily do
> calculations on several machines at once? So one could reboot into AdaOS
> before one goes home at night and leave the computer to do calculations
> all night while you sleep without worrying too much that somebody is
> breaking into your system.
>
> Preben who always turns off his office machine, firewalls or not.