Computing Fabrics (1998-2003)

On May 19, 2003: Eric Lundquist, Editor-in-Chief of eWeek, recognized that IBM's On-Demand Computing, HP's Adaptive Enterprise, and Sun's N1 are all movements towards Computing Fabrics as we first predicted them in 1998.

On January 7, 2002: eWeek called our 1998 Computing Fabrics Cover Story "Prescient"
and declared The Grid, a subset of Computing Fabrics, "The Next Big Thing".

Riding the
Third Wave


In the News 2002-2004

Computing's Next Wave 1998
(The First Report)

The Next Big Thing 2002
Computing Fabrics & Grids

The Three Waves of Computing

Architecture

Defined & Compared

Resources

Conferences & Workshops

The Bigger Picture

 

Resources

References (1998)

Distributed Shared Memory
  Silicon Graphics Inc. - ccNUMA
   
 
Craylink - Modularly Scalable Interconnect
Hypercube Connectivity within CC-NUMA Architecture, Part 1
The SGI SPIDER Chip

Cellular IRIX - Distributed Operating System
Irix(TM) 6.4 (n/a)
Silicon Graphics - Software : IRIX 6.5
Developer Central - IRIX 6.5

Distributed Shared Objects
  Microsoft Research Millennium
Automated Transparent Object Distribution
   

The Millennium Research Project
Includes:
Millennium position paper
FAQ
BORG
Coign
Continuum

  Objectivity/DB - Federated ODBMS - An Object Database approach
    Objectivity
Supporting Technologies
  SuperHIPPI (Hyper-networks)
    HIPPI Networking Forum
  Virtual Interface Architecture
    VIA Spec Home Page
Myricom
Ongoing Research Projects
  NSCP - National Scalable Cluster Project
   
 NSCP - Univ. of Pennsylvania
 NSCP - Univ. of Maryland
Close but no cigar Technologies
   
Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) for NT
Sequent - NUMA-Q 2000 Series datasheet
 
Links
References (1998)
FAQ (1998)


Copyright 1996-2004 by Infomaniacs. All Rights Reserved.
Updated 01.15.2002

 

By Linda Von Schweber
& Erick Von Schweber

Copyright 1996-2004 by Infomaniacs. All Rights Reserved.
Updated May 28, 2003