Since when does Amazon disclose any data on the amount of instances running?

Oops, I already built (and build) mission critical stuff. Additionally, you should wish that I was also developing on flight control software and life critical systems; current development methods as used in industry are either limited or lacking in the kind of dynamic behaviour they support. There really isn't any point in explaining to you what you weren't able to figure out yourself. It's like I am building a space ship and you, who has just built your first paper plane am telling me that I am doing it wrong. I hope you understand. If, however, you represent a multi-billion dollar company, I am ready to explain for the small price of 250K USD how something like that could be achieved.

No, you just say that it is impossible. I call it an engineering problem. You just confused some concepts and as a result you are now spreading your ignorance. I hate it when when people do that.

The systems described in the news item do not have 10M+ lines of code nor do they require hundreds of programmers. Even so, that's not a limitation of these systems.

It annoys me that people like you get upvoted, because you are wrong. It's very simply a theorem stating that the maximum memory use under all circumstances should be lower than X should be proved. Obviously, that didn't happen. Yes, such systems do exist.

So, did you fire upper management? Why not?

I am just filled with joy to find that I am not alone in this.

You have clearly never looked at OpenSSH code; it took me 5 minutes to find programming practices that only a novice programmer would use. They are using ancient development methodologies and as such they are an easy target for any modern crypto-department of some national security agency. If I had enough free time, I would blow a hole the size of the Titanic in OpenSSH just to make people like you shut up.

No, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q... that doesn't work.

MPI *is* conventional. Anything else which came after it (Hadoop) is for the people with less programming skills. Programming full on distributed systems is not a task which all Hadoop programmers can do.

It's scary how you communicate so much bullshit as if you are the expert.