John G. Rose wrote:
Has anyone done some analysis on cloud computing, in particular the
recent trend and coming out of clouds with multiple startup efforts in
this space? And their relationship to AGI type applications?
Or is this phenomena just geared to web server farm resource grouping?
I suppose that it is worth delving into... at least evaluating. But my
first thoughts are that the hardware nodes have interrelationships
that require compatibility layers for service offerings verses custom
clusters hand tweaked for app specific - AGI in this case,
optimizations and caterings.
From playing around a little in the Amazon cloud you can do anything
you can do on a standard TCP/IP network of off the shelf boxes.
Granted you can't hook up a faster network as you certainly could in
your own cluster. But it still seems pretty intriguing.
What happens though over time is that the cloud generalization
substrate made for software and competitive efficiencies eventually
come close to or exceed the abilities of the hand developed and
tweaked. That is the problem - determining whether to wait, pay, or to
develop a custom solution.
Well, most of us have no choice but do do whatever we can as soon as we
can on top of free/cheap but relatively plentiful resources.
Isn't software development annoying because of this? Big guys like MS
have the umph to shrug off the little guys using their development
resource power. Sometimes the only choice is to eat dust and like it.
Suck up the dust, it's nutritional silicon value is there, feed off of
it, the perpetuity of a naked quartz lunch.
Actually I think software is very exciting and have for 30 years because
the "little guy" can and often does come up with something on a relative
shoestring that blows MS out of the water in some market that often
didn't even see coming.
- samantha
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