Google Architecture 3746

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we took some amount of heat in the 80s from the communication group working on high-speed data transport and 3-tier architecture (as extension of 2-tier, client-server)

then in the early 90s ... when we were working on scaling non-mainframe loosely-coupled for the commercial market

we got hit and told we couldn't work on anything involving more than four processors ... minor reference:

however, the cluster scaling has evolved in a number of ways. high-energy physics picked it up and evolved it as something called GRID. a number of vendors also contributed a lot of work on GRID technology and since are out pushing it in various commercial market segments ... including financial. some of the early financial adopters are using GRID for doing complex financial analysis in real-time.

some topic drift ... i gave a talk a couple years ago at the global grid forum https:--forge.gridforum.org-docman2-ViewCategory.php?groupid=42&categoryid=721

.... select "GGF11-desing-security-nakedkey" in the above.

misc. GRID related news article in the commercial market

Investment Banks Using Grid Computing Models ASPEED Taking Financial Grids to the Next Level Wachovia uses grid technology to speed up transaction apps Grid Computing That Heals Itself GRID WORLD 2006: New IBM software brings autonomic computing to Grids

as somewhat referenced in a couple of the above ("batch processing going back 50 years")... bringing "batch" to GRID can be somewhat viewed as JES3 on steroids. before getting con'ed into going to pok to be in charge of loosely coupled architecture

my wife had been in the JES group in g'burg. She had been one of the catchers for ASP ... as part of its transformation into JES3. She had also done a business analysis of the major JES2 and JES3 features as part of proposal for creating a merged product. however, that never made it very far ... in part because of a lot of internal politics.

random past posts mentioning jes3:

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