David Rosenstrauch <[email protected]> writes: > On 04/21/2016 12:50 AM, Mike Small wrote: >> "Sadly it seems that we now need to either wait for Linux or Windows to >> catch up with the 1980s state of the art in distributed systems (think >> Locus or AFS). What went wrong? Products like DataSynapse’s FabricServer >> look like an interesting attempt to address the problem, at least for >> the Java world, but it feels to me that mainstream operating systems >> designers seem to have lost the plot somewhere along the way." >> >> http://discovery.bmc.com/community/blog-post/whatever-happened-to-distributed-operating-systems3/ >> >> Is single system image still a thing? > > Aren't systems like Apache Mesos (which didn't exist back nearly 10 > years ago in 2007 when the author wrote that post) the natural successor > to DataSynapse FabricServer, and an example of the "distibuted operating > system" he's talking about? I.e., just a big pool of CPU cores, where > different portions of the pool can be utilized for different types of > distributed workloads.
Sounds more like what he's talking about. Are these kinds of systems gaining much traction? I'd never heard of Mesos. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
