http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
I have been reading a bit about cloud/parallel/grid computing. I prefer to use cloud computing rather than grid or parallel because those words or techniques have been used for other concepts. It seems that this way of thinking is increasingly becoming popular. If we think ofthis way of working in terms of J how would we place operations and data? If the data is spread out and the operations on the data is in many places how do the J sesions interact? Are we talking about one master J sessions controling various other sessions on the same and different computers? How do we work on data spread out over several computer? Do we use sockets to communicate? Do we see J controlling everything and calling other processes or would J be called by others as standalone or integrated pieces? On a similar theme of working automatically with data on many computers with J 1994 I used J to control flow of data between computers. Used TCP as well as e-mail and direct calls to exchange data between wastly different computer systems. Put the data coming from various directions into folders. The whole operations is triggered by wakeups using the operating system to startup processes that contacts various computers and collects data and sends other data. This is done for amongst other exchanging mobile phone use in different countries and send info to billing system. Everything automatic and last I heard it is mostly unchanged running and delivering At the time J could not call e-mail so I made a simple VB program just to send the e-mails. -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Fornustekkum II, 781 Hornafirði Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(")
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