[Swift-devel] Planning next set of Swift features and releases

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 16:43 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > I believe that the only reasonable solution to the problem is
> > virtualization.
> 
> I don't think virtualisation is particularly more reasonable than the 
> various other mechanisms. Each has its own benefits and downsides, and 
> none of them to me appear to be particularly domininant.
> 

Well, the differential cost of going from one site to an arbitrary
number of sites is 0 from the perspective of setting applications up. I
think this is essential to making swift a system that commoditizes
running applications on grids.