[Swift-devel] CPU usage with provider-deef

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Jun 17 03:47:38 CDT 2007


On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 18:09 -0500, Mike Wilde wrote:
> sorry, I still believe this can be fun. You can tell me afterwards 
> if I was right or not.

Fun it is then.

Mihael

> 
> I think from Ioan's work we can gain some understanding of the 
> problem, of architecture issues, performance potential, and of 
> protocol and reliability issues.
> 
> I feel it can still be fun to design a new production-quality system 
> from scratch, and to prototype and implement that.
> 
> Mihael, I think you had a vision of how this could be done elegantly 
> using Karajan mechanisms as powerful building blocks to build on, to 
> provide the communication and messaging / remote execution fabric.
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote, On 6/16/2007 2:36 PM:
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 12:03 -0500, Mike Wilde wrote:
> >>> This should be fun, and a nice break from the I2U2 work that you've 
> >>> been immersed in, Mihael.
> > 
> >> I have my reservations towards the amount of fun it involves.
> > 
> > Right, taking prototypes and turning them into production isn't 
> > necessarily fun - in fact, a lot of the fun already happened with the 
> > making of the prototype and the rest is some what drugery. (to an extent 
> > that's the same situation i2u2 cosmic was/is in).
> 
> I hope its not the case that the only part of programming thats fun 
> is prototyping.
> 
> If you spend your day in powerpoint, word and email, anything 
> related to code can look like fun...
> 
> :) Mike
> 
> 
> > 
> 




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