Tom,
See: http://www.internet2.edu.
This initiative was started in the late 90's as a high bandwidth,
subscription based research and education delivery system. We are reaping
some of the small, commercial benefits now - from contributions from Cisco's
high speed hardware, and security from
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.
If that makes
Always fun to see the programming language index now and again:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Amazing to see VB is up 3.5%, while C++ is down .8% and Python is
moving up .7% .. and the big surprise for me with AJAX being such a
Big Thing is Javascript
Looks like VB and PHP have overtaken C++ in third spot. But these
languages aren't really competitors of C++, which are really C#, Java
and to a certain extent C.
D will probably be my next language, but it will probably need to get
way more popular before I make a switch to it :)
On Mon, Apr
Owen Densmore wrote:
Naturally, Java is still number 1, at 20.5%, up 2.17% over the year.
But even Haskell has a better performance case.
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=alllang=all
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