Hardware Headaches Inevitable?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 28, 2006 @05:26PM from the hardware-is-always-a-headache dept.

JaneWalker6847 writes "Don Becker, co-founder of the Beowulf project, describes the inevitability of hardware administration headaches and warns users not to expect a silver bullet to solve these problems." From the article: "We're about to see another revolution, which is in network adapters -- that we [will] talk directly to [them] from application level. That's a massive change in how you interface with them. And that brings about a new round of device drivers completely unlike the device drivers we had 10 years ago. So, that part of the world isn't going to stabilize anytime soon."

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Direct from the application? by XanC · 2006-08-28 17:29 · Score: -1, Redundant

Um, why? I even read the fine article and there isn't a hint of what would be good about this approach.
Slow news day... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-08-28 17:43 · Score: -1, Redundant

The article snippet in the summary is pretty much the only (semi) important part of an otherwise useless article/interview.