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A New Protocol For Faster Web Services?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pardon-my-skepticism dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Jonghun Park is an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He says that a new protocol can improve Web services. Sandeep Junnarkar broke the story. "Jonghun Park proposed a method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. The protocol is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests. Such a method boosts the efficiency of how resources are shared over the Internet. The new protocol is called Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests." Check this column for some excerpts or read the CNET News.com article for more details. More information about Jonghun Park's works can be found at his homepage."

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  1. Sounds familiar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wasn't this reportedly the theory behind the Irish Young Scientists Xwebs project?

  2. but... by Interfacer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    won't that make things more unsafe/unstable too?
    because http is plain simple, it is easy to determine where resides what functionality.

    if systems become more connected and integrated into each other, won't that make it much harder to determine what is going on on your system?

    i can imagine that msft will have a go at running parts on your system on their registration servers. this seems to me like another step towards DRM.

    i understand that this is just a protocol, but if people will start interconnecting systems, there will be (security issues)++

    Int

  3. There might be "issues" with adoption by slashuzer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Just look at this...

    Jonghun Park is an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. He says that a new protocol can improve Web services. Sandeep Junnarkar broke the story. "Jonghun Park proposed a method for sharing information between systems linked on the Internet promises to speed collaborative applications by up to 10 times the current rates. The protocol is based on an algorithm that lets it use parallel instead of serial methods to process requests. Such a method boosts the efficiency of how resources are shared over the Internet. The new protocol is called Order-based Deadlock Prevention Protocol with Parallel Requests."

    First, there is this whole climate fuelled by RIAA/MPAA that makes the very mention of collaborative applications something criminal.

    Secondly, if there is to be a non p2p media sharing usage for this protocol, it has to get industry support. Read M$.

    This looks like a solution looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Where have we seen this before?

  4. Nonexistant applications will speed up ten times by archeopterix · · Score: 4, Interesting
    In other words, instead of concurrent applications collaborating, they will vie for resources or just freeze while waiting for the other to take a lead.
    "Better coordination will be required to meet that demand, and this protocol provides that," said Park, who presented his research this week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Symposium on Applications and the Internet in Orlando, Fla. His paper, titled "A Scalable Protocol for Deadlock and Livelock Free Co-Allocation of Resources in Internet Computing," has not been published yet.
    As far as I can tell from the articles it's about a protocol for avoiding deadlock in a distributed environment.

    This is cool and schmool, but where exactly are the collaborating applications that need to share and lock resources across Internet? Locking is useful only in preventing concurrent access to a critical nondivisible resource. Of course, web browsers share servers, but they don't need to lock them (well, sometimes they "lock" them, but this is only a side effect known as "slashdotting"). P2P apps? I don't think they need to lock anything in order to share files.

    A-ha! Web services! Ok, what web services? Have you ever used a distributed web service application that needed to lock resources? I thought so.

    I am not saying that this protocol is bogus, but it will probably be useful for apps that don't exist yet, at least on the Internet.