I think it would be great if more effort were put into "user-friendly" distributed file systems and processing so that a lot of wasted resources could be reclaimed at businesses. When I was an administrator at an unnamed company, I thought it was a shame that everyone had a fancy, 2Ghz. machine with a 60 gig drive that was only used for basically surfing the net and reading email. The result was an almost complete waste of machine - about 3 gigs of drive space used, and almost no CPU utilization.
So.. why not make all of these machines into collective distributed servers? Obviously, a lot of redundancy would have to be built in - what happens if John accidentally turns off his machine at the end of the day?
Anyway, just one possible use for distributed filesystems...
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I think it would be great if more effort were put into "user-friendly" distributed file systems and processing so that a lot of wasted resources could be reclaimed at businesses. When I was an administrator at an unnamed company, I thought it was a shame that everyone had a fancy, 2Ghz. machine with a 60 gig drive that was only used for basically surfing the net and reading email. The result was an almost complete waste of machine - about 3 gigs of drive space used, and almost no CPU utilization. So.. why not make all of these machines into collective distributed servers? Obviously, a lot of redundancy would have to be built in - what happens if John accidentally turns off his machine at the end of the day? Anyway, just one possible use for distributed filesystems...
We know we're finally in an information age when we can start leaving technology in the bathroom...