Oracle has announced 10 will be 10g for grid. Many of us have been baffled
by what grid is, will it be useful in the real world, etc. Here is a short
article on a practical grid application (non Oracle)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5106230.html
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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8i -- I for the Indomitable, the Invincible.
10g -- G for the Great, the Gladiator...
(Sorry never mind.)
Patrice
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Oracle has announced 10 will be 10g for grid. Many of us have been
It's kind of like the SETI project... for those of you that don't know
what this is, it's a project where NASA has images that need to be
analyzed, but don't have the computing power to do it all in a
reasonable time. So they created a system where they distribute the
processing of the images
Nope, sorry. This is a fundamental misconception that many people
share. :)
SETI is a completely different kettle of fish to Oracle's grid story,
using spare cycles on desktops to try and achieve something as part of
the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (IIRC that's what SETI
stands
