I wonder what the impact peer to peer technology will do to this segment. Already technology exists where idle / free cpu cycles on individual pcs can pooled to do large distributed computing work. Perhaps as this technology gets better, corporates may not mind having fat clients, since they can use that idle / extra power to do, say, payroll processing ? or something like OLAP Cube compilation / analysis.
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: vinayak_hegde@softhome.net To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 5:56 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Network Computers [Earlier -- Ignorance is bliss]
Saswata Banerjee & Associates writes:
My point is that with CPU cost coming down, HDD cost coming down, irrespective of bandwidth cost, what does the use get ? What is the
benefit
that will be derived in terms of money, efficiency, etc. by moving to NC
?
Regards Saswata
for most endusers it may not make a difference but for companies which have regular backend operations, it will make better sense outsourcing CPU cycles IMHO. Use of Cluster computing is on the rise due to precisely this reason. So backends will consist of Clusters/outsourced grids. We may start looking @ CPUcycles/computing power just like we look at electricity today.
Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-Juhu