cliveb;149996 Wrote: > > > The client can still run on the server hardware - the critical issue > here is that the client keeps a connection open to the server, does > some clever caching, and avoids using something like HTML/XML/whatever > as the data transfer language (which requires parsing by a fairly > complex process just to display it sensibly). The remote control device > is just the human interface - think of it as like a special purpose > wireless keyboard/monitor. > > Incidentally, Rob's PM also mentioned that their control panel > component has a gigabyte of RAM for caching (no surprises there). What > would be interesting is to find out how quickly the system is ready to > rock after a cold start up.
Well certainly a gig of ram cache is going to take some finite time to load...unless its never really flushed/turned off. I agree the client can be as fat as you like on the client/server box...but on my "remote" I'd like a Citrix-style ultra-thin client, with the performance coming from the fat client/server. The UTC could be in firmware on the remote - all the caching etc would be on the client/server box(es). As for all this mumbo-jumbo about "clever use of metadata" and dbms's...I've pretty much seen all the funky dbms's out there - some of which are indeed blindingly fast/scalable in single user read-only mode (eg Aruna) and use vector maths and mass-tokenisation instead of conventional storage paradigms. I've seen a modest PC running one these out perform a 72-way 1.2Ghz Sun F15k running Oracle on complex queries with >10 joins to multi-million row tables... Nobody needs to write their own dbms unless they are masochists. Oh and Metadata is just data about data. It's NOT special!. Any serious db (eg SYBASE, Oracle) stores its own metadata in its normal internal relational structures - they always "eat their own dog food" because it's a way of saying "if we had a faster way of handling the metadata we'd use it on the normal data - but we don't." -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28499 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
