http://www.osnews.com/story/19294/IBM_Explores_67_1m-Core_Computer_for_Running_Entire_Internet Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:32:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?299823 http://osnews.com/thread?299823 Here is 1 big target, plus what ever happens it sounds like the whole net will go down. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Edward) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?299827 http://osnews.com/thread?299827 ...minus what IBM doesn't approve of, of course. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?299841 http://osnews.com/thread?299841 I'm intrigued by this idea - the IBM researchers seem to have identified a somewhat overlooked series of issues with regards to clusters of commodity systems. Now they have a proposed solution. With crazy ideas like portable data centres, floating data centres cropping up, and proposals of standardized DC power for PCs, it seems like IBM is on the right track by trying to address concerns of power/space use.

From what I understand of their idea, it could best be described as having the Internet run a supercomputer - not the other way around. The 'net, as a whole, is a huge number of interconnected systems passing messages by a wildly varying set of defined protocols. Up until now, supercomputers (in my understanding) use a constrained, high-performance protocol to attack single problems (like nuclear warhead decay, geological surveys, etc). The proposal here seems to explore the ramifications of having many protocols passing data between many processes with different tasks and responsibilities running on a supercomputer.

The article at the reg notes that BlueGene is already a form of hybrid massively-SMP/cluster system (having attributes of both). It looks like the boys at IBM could be en-route to some interesting results! Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (woogs) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?299853 http://osnews.com/thread?299853 http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/kittyhawk/kittyhawk.pdf

The Reg article exaggerates what Kittyhawk is really about; the actual paper is pretty interesting. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Wes Felter) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?299858 http://osnews.com/thread?299858 See "5 reaons it might not be “Blue Skies” for IBM"

http://www.johnmwillis.com/other/5-reaons-it-might-not-be-blue-skie... Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (botchagalupe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?300298 http://osnews.com/thread?300298 Looking at things within the context of the internet as it is today and how it has developed...

The more relevant question is how can such a system be employed for the more efficient delivery, dissemination, and creation of porn?

Build it and they will..er, come. Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quag7) Comments