About that, I'm currently working in the computing grid field, notably the use of grids among the (Earth) science community. I'm personally convinced that the way to go would be to build on a sane distributed base, like Plan9 but it's not at all the situation at the moment.
The biggest structures are based on Linux (clusters or PCs) augmented with some middleware (such as gLite, or globus). The whole thing seems quite bloated to me from the beginning and it's getting even more complicated as the middleware developpers are trying to fit the needs of the different scientific communities. Now to my point: I'm slowly trying to hint ppl at Plan9 but it's not easy since: -I'm not "big" in the middle -I don't have (yet) such a strong experience in Plan9 (only played with it a bit and installed a standalone cpu server) -there is no (afaik) example yet of a plan9 grid where one can submit distributed jobs, to convince ppl. Although it seems to me plan9 would be the best platform for that and hence would require way less work to obtain some elegant solutions than on any other framwork. So my question is: do you think that Workshop would be the right occasion to demonstrate Plan9 to the grid ppl or is it too soon to convince of its possible advantages as a computing grid platform? Is it worth trying to get some of these ppl to go there? Or am I completely mistaken on what this workshop is about? Any thoughts on this are welcome :) Cheers, Mathieu. On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Sape Mullender wrote: > We have started preparations to host the Second very International Workshop > on Plan 9 at Bell Labs MH in December of this year, almost certainly > Monday December 3 and Tuesday December 4. > > Preparations are still underway, but we hope to post the official > announcement soon. > > Sape > -- GPG key on subkeys.pgp.net: KeyID: | Fingerprint: 683DE5F3 | 4324 5818 39AA 9545 95C6 09AF B0A4 DFEA 683D E5F3 --
