What we are seeing is that a lot of universities are moving to Java as their programming language of choice for teaching OOP. I stand behind this since a greater depth of knowledge of OOP is needed for CS students coming out.
I have to back up what RalphBNumbers stated here. The fact is there are several different types of HPC problems to solve. It is nice when you are able to make a large cluster of SMP systems connected with a high speed / low latency interconnect. Then you can get the best of both worlds.
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Building Upon the Service Driven Network
Sun has been talking for several years about the Service Driven Network vision. That vision is based on a responsive digital network that gives customers "'dial tone' reliability while delivering new services that reside on the network." In essence, it's bringing companies to the best quality of service they can expect from a network, at a cost that is still practical for running a business.
The Services on Demand Vision
The network is all about servicing your communities, stockholders, customers, and employees. Increasingly, these services are delivered to communities via software functionality that has migrated to the network. That software may be in distributed form, saved in pieces in directories on the network, or called upon to perform specific functions. It may involve Web applications, but may also embrace different innovations in things like Web services or other component software models.
Sun includes all those software methods in its Services on Demand vision. Services on Demand is the point where information assets are fully leveraged for business benefit in the form of services -- using any technological way that's cost-effective and suitable for a company, be it Web applications provided as services, or components of applications stored in central directories assembled in real-time to provide services. It's all about the ability to use all these software approaches, according to the phase a company is in, and the timing that's right for that business.
Evolution, Not Revolution
In fact, in Sun's view of Services on Demand, software technologies don't disappear, they evolve to include legacy as well as new technologies. These technologies build off of each other and intermingle, so that customers don't have to start from scratch. It's Sun's view that software evolution, not revolution, is the best approach for maintaining ROI and building effective business practices.
The Pay Off
The Services on Demand vision provides obvious technological benefits to customers, due to its open and evolutionary approach. Additionally, and most importantly, it ties directly to a company's bottom line business goals.
The Sun ONE platform offers these business advantages:
* Line of Sight: A unified view of community, transactions, infrastructure
* Management by Measurement: Clear, consistent tracking of IT progress and issues
* Efficiency: Re-use of components, applications, and services for intranet and extranet
* Business Accessibility: Anytime, anywhere, anyone, any device services for your communities.
Software Is Still Evolving
At Sun, we see software evolving across our customer base in a few phases. Different customers, depending on their industry, their leadership, and other factors, are in different phases when it comes to leveraging software to tap their information assets.
Local Software Applications
Every phase starts in some shape or form with local software applications. Traditionally, local software applications operated in a closed environment -- it was locally managed and administered, perhaps running on huge mainframe machines, and required expensive personnel to maintain and access it. It was monolithic, in a one-size-fits-all format, and it was installed and then customized.
There are companies that are still in this phase of software use. They are buying applications written for specific functions, installing that software, and integrating it with all the other software in their current environment. This was appropriate for the well-known, closed environments, which used to be quite prevalent. But these application designs can only stretch so far. And when it comes to opening up software to other companies, other computers, and other networks of computers, monolithic apps can add a lot in integration costs and maintenance. Especially when it comes to leveraging markets across the Internet.
Web Applications
So business reasons drove companies to open up these applications to the Web. No matter how complex things got, and how hard it was -- it was necessary in order to stay competitive. Inventory systems became online procurement, and brochureware turned into Web pages. More software was integrated to make it appropriate for online use and available to millions of new users with many different systems.
We see this as the boom in Web applications. It became quite evolved, with some companies setting up shop to do nothing but provide applications over the Web as Service Providers. We find most of our customers in some aspect of this phase because this is where costs can be cut and market opportunities can be turned into revenue. By looking at your information assets and thinking creatively about how to use them, you can be rewarded with new customers, more loyal customers, and many other benefits.
Web Services
But we don't see our customers stopping at the Web application phase, although we think that is the number one spot to wring out savings right now and for the next few years. What we think of as the next phase is the time when services finally come to life. Now that our vision for the Service Driven Network is being realized, we're looking out at the next five years and where we see customers needing to go, for business reasons, is to a mix of many types of software methods that are harnessed together to perform services. This is our Services on Demand vision.
True a cluster of workstaions or PS2s could have a large theoretical OPS but the MTF (mean time to failure) is rather large. Most, I said most, simulations and programs for creating "bad" stuff are built to run on SMPs and have very long run times.
Faith in the Creator of this world will save anyone. Proof, look around you, who created the air you breath, the body that you hold as yours? This world will pass away and those who have given their lives to Christ will live eternally with Him who created all.
I would ask that you seek out Christ, offer your life to Him, and watch Him turn your life into a beautiful work for Him.
When sin entered into the world so came free will. We live in a world filled with freewill and thus people who sin. The Lord was there to protect his children and deliver home those who believed in him that day. The time will come when we all must make the choice to choose Christ or choose eternal death. I pray the world will turn to the Creator and help to change the world.
I would move #3 to #1. That is what the world need right now more that anything. It is time for the world to wake up and realize that we are not living in an X-Files world, but we were created by an all power God. The true is out there, and it is in Jesus Christ our Savior!!! The one for whom the holiday is named.
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Why not just take a tip from Sun's new pricing model and offer and infinite right to use and have the pricing based on a per employee cost.
Y employees * $X = resulting software cost
Do this on a year over year basis and you have recuring revenue.
What we are seeing is that a lot of universities are moving to Java as their programming language of choice for teaching OOP. I stand behind this since a greater depth of knowledge of OOP is needed for CS students coming out.
I have to back up what RalphBNumbers stated here. The fact is there are several different types of HPC problems to solve. It is nice when you are able to make a large cluster of SMP systems connected with a high speed / low latency interconnect. Then you can get the best of both worlds.
Building Upon the Service Driven Network
Sun has been talking for several years about the Service Driven Network vision. That vision is based on a responsive digital network that gives customers "'dial tone' reliability while delivering new services that reside on the network." In essence, it's bringing companies to the best quality of service they can expect from a network, at a cost that is still practical for running a business.
The Services on Demand Vision
The network is all about servicing your communities, stockholders, customers, and employees. Increasingly, these services are delivered to communities via software functionality that has migrated to the network. That software may be in distributed form, saved in pieces in directories on the network, or called upon to perform specific functions. It may involve Web applications, but may also embrace different innovations in things like Web services or other component software models.
Sun includes all those software methods in its Services on Demand vision. Services on Demand is the point where information assets are fully leveraged for business benefit in the form of services -- using any technological way that's cost-effective and suitable for a company, be it Web applications provided as services, or components of applications stored in central directories assembled in real-time to provide services. It's all about the ability to use all these software approaches, according to the phase a company is in, and the timing that's right for that business.
Evolution, Not Revolution
In fact, in Sun's view of Services on Demand, software technologies don't disappear, they evolve to include legacy as well as new technologies. These technologies build off of each other and intermingle, so that customers don't have to start from scratch. It's Sun's view that software evolution, not revolution, is the best approach for maintaining ROI and building effective business practices.
The Pay Off
The Services on Demand vision provides obvious technological benefits to customers, due to its open and evolutionary approach. Additionally, and most importantly, it ties directly to a company's bottom line business goals.
The Sun ONE platform offers these business advantages:
* Line of Sight: A unified view of community, transactions, infrastructure
* Management by Measurement: Clear, consistent tracking of IT progress and issues
* Efficiency: Re-use of components, applications, and services for intranet and extranet
* Business Accessibility: Anytime, anywhere, anyone, any device services for your communities.
Software Is Still Evolving
At Sun, we see software evolving across our customer base in a few phases. Different customers, depending on their industry, their leadership, and other factors, are in different phases when it comes to leveraging software to tap their information assets.
Local Software Applications
Every phase starts in some shape or form with local software applications. Traditionally, local software applications operated in a closed environment -- it was locally managed and administered, perhaps running on huge mainframe machines, and required expensive personnel to maintain and access it. It was monolithic, in a one-size-fits-all format, and it was installed and then customized.
There are companies that are still in this phase of software use. They are buying applications written for specific functions, installing that software, and integrating it with all the other software in their current environment. This was appropriate for the well-known, closed environments, which used to be quite prevalent. But these application designs can only stretch so far. And when it comes to opening up software to other companies, other computers, and other networks of computers, monolithic apps can add a lot in integration costs and maintenance. Especially when it comes to leveraging markets across the Internet.
Web Applications
So business reasons drove companies to open up these applications to the Web. No matter how complex things got, and how hard it was -- it was necessary in order to stay competitive. Inventory systems became online procurement, and brochureware turned into Web pages. More software was integrated to make it appropriate for online use and available to millions of new users with many different systems.
We see this as the boom in Web applications. It became quite evolved, with some companies setting up shop to do nothing but provide applications over the Web as Service Providers. We find most of our customers in some aspect of this phase because this is where costs can be cut and market opportunities can be turned into revenue. By looking at your information assets and thinking creatively about how to use them, you can be rewarded with new customers, more loyal customers, and many other benefits.
Web Services
But we don't see our customers stopping at the Web application phase, although we think that is the number one spot to wring out savings right now and for the next few years. What we think of as the next phase is the time when services finally come to life. Now that our vision for the Service Driven Network is being realized, we're looking out at the next five years and where we see customers needing to go, for business reasons, is to a mix of many types of software methods that are harnessed together to perform services. This is our Services on Demand vision.
The process is called checkpoint/restart. It does exist in the UNIX world, mainly in the HPC markets.
True a cluster of workstaions or PS2s could have a large theoretical OPS but the MTF (mean time to failure) is rather large. Most, I said most, simulations and programs for creating "bad" stuff are built to run on SMPs and have very long run times.
Faith in the Creator of this world will save anyone. Proof, look around you, who created the air you breath, the body that you hold as yours? This world will pass away and those who have given their lives to Christ will live eternally with Him who created all.
I would ask that you seek out Christ, offer your life to Him, and watch Him turn your life into a beautiful work for Him.
When sin entered into the world so came free will. We live in a world filled with freewill and thus people who sin. The Lord was there to protect his children and deliver home those who believed in him that day. The time will come when we all must make the choice to choose Christ or choose eternal death. I pray the world will turn to the Creator and help to change the world.
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I would move #3 to #1. That is what the world need right now more that anything. It is time for the world to wake up and realize that we are not living in an X-Files world, but we were created by an all power God. The true is out there, and it is in Jesus Christ our Savior!!! The one for whom the holiday is named.