Hardware Headaches Inevitable?

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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Re:revolution indeed

[electrosoccertux]

It also gives us a reason to have a TPM chip in our computers.

My CPU load never goes above 5% with my integrated etherwebs running full on @100Mbps. We don't _need_ this.

I don't want yet another opaque software layer

[coralsaw]

in my linux system. I want open source network drivers that implement the TCP/IP stack without, say, phoning home for instance. Drivers that I could compile or hack myself if I wanted to.

/coralsaw