Alternate large-scale networked-application architecture

[Adam L. Beberg]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Stephen D. Williams wrote:

> This was beginning to raise my ire until I saw that it was from 1993...

Yes, but he was talking about what he was doing in the _70's_

> There are many misconceptions, outdated ideas, and misplaced
> optimization in this document.
>
> For some more modern ideas see:

Nothing has changed but the names. There is the way you do things when you
have/need alot of bandwidth relative to the compute nodes, and the ways you
do things when you have less bandwidth.

The big push right now is to combine the 10 different busses in a computer
into just one, since the bandwidth curve seems to be gaining on the
processing curve in a hurry, well passing what mortals can use, and
certainly not needing a parallel bus architecture anymore. Even RAM is going
more serial.

- Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
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