From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,55958fd991db66fe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-09-17 05:05:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Advantage of XML based GUI? (was Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:04:42 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0209101828.cb5ff85@posting.google.com> <3d7f9d3f.920665532@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d80b566.992395741@news.cis.dfn.de> <3d822b59.1088140942@news.cis.dfn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.be.cc X-Server-Date: 17 Sep 2002 12:05:13 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29067 Date: 2002-09-17T12:05:13+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ====================================================================== Preben Randhol wrote in message news:slrnaobid8.5e7.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > > 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.