Convergence of P2P and Grid Predicted

tom_conte writes "From the proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'03), "On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing" compares the two current popular incarnations of distributed computing technology, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Grid Computing. It also predicts the convergence of the two technologies: "The complementary nature of the strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches suggests that the interests of the two communities are likely to grow closer over time." This paper is worth reading if you want to clear up the marketing cloud that surrounds these two technologies and sometimes makes them hard to distinguish."

I'm going to start selling

[Anonymous Coward]

Wireless Grid Peer to Peer systems... With that many buzzwords, it can't miss.

WHOA

[pummer]

has anyone ever thought of a Beowulf cluster of grids???

The possibilities are endless!

Someone has an ego problem...

[cperciva]

This paper is *six* pages long, and Ian Foster has *sixteen* self-citations.

I know some insitutions rank their faculty based on the number of times their papers are cited, but they usually exclude self-citations in those counts.

Re:WHOA

[Anonymous Coward]

Why stop at a grid? Why not spherical, hexagonal or banana shaped!

Re:Grid Computing,

[Anonymous Coward]

As my professor described it, is a system similar to a power grid. You can plug in anywhere, and use the resources (Disk, Memory, CPU) of the grid for computation. Your resources would be added to the "grid collective" as well.

Sounds like Borg computing.

I got rid of my old GRID computer years ago...

[callipygian-showsyst]

I got rid of my old GRID computer years ago. The plasma screen was kind of cool, but the bubble memory was s-l-o-w.

I predict.

[dameron]

As these two technologies converge you'll start seeing white vans driving around residential neighborhoods with carefully hidden antennas sprouting from the top, snopping, like antiquated British tv detectors, for illegal activity on the grids.

Not long after that, the "virtual search warrant" and mandated backdoors in commercial grid products will appear.

Those fucks (**AA) would try to regulate telepathy if it existed.

-dameron

Re:Grid Computing,

[Anonvmous Coward]

"As my professor described it, is a system similar to a power grid. You can plug in anywhere, and use the resources (Disk, Memory, CPU) of the grid for computation. Your resources would be added to the "grid collective" as well."

Anybody else read that and get a vision of the Borg? Are we headed that way?

Heh. Just found that interesting. Lots of stuff talking to lots of other stuff. Emergent properties are bound to appear, right?

If they do converge...

[Spytap]

It'll be so amazing and cool that everyone will want to have it, so people will begin selling it. They will, however, quickly go out of business because the product they are trying to sell is available for free download on the product they have already sold ;)

Re:I predict.

[Syncdata]

Those fucks (**AA) would try to regulate telepathy if it existed.
I realize the parent was using the asterisk as a wildcard, but as I was scrolled through the comments, it first appeared that he was willing to say 'fucks' but censored himself when referencing the RIAA, and the MPAA.
Good ol' unintentional comedy.

Predicted?!?!

[Sarcazmo]

Come on! All recent Windows P2P software has come with distributed grid computing applications to collect marketing data. They are way behind the times here.

Re:The future of the Grid

[HaveBlue34]

gridware is targetted at people who want to do more with the internet than look at pictures of Gillian Anderson's pussy.

If thats not a marketing slogan, I don't know what is.

What's TPC?

[nyet]

And do I have to put a cover letter on it?