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Re: Some elementary thoughts on OPES usage scenarios

2001-02-07 16:02:29
At 01:05 PM 2/6/01 -0600, Jayanth Mysore wrote:
(2) Such boxes may be provided by access network providers or "compute power
distribution networks" similar to "content distribution networks" that are popular currently. These networks will essentially lease CPU cycles, memory, disk space etc. to users. Such an infrastructure will especially be useful as a large number of thin wireless clients begin getting connected to the Internet using fully packet based transport
mechanisms over the air.

Or to use more industry common terms, you're talking about a type of ASP. However, whereas today's ASPs provide and bill for particular specific applications, it sounds as if you'd like OPES to be a tool by which an ASP could simply communicate what type of code they're capable of running and how much their resources cost, then people could upload their code and go to town.

It's a nice utopian vision. However, if I may be skeptical, the ASP market is having enough trouble providing services and billing for them using a well-defined & finite number of applications. I'd like to speculate that providing this type of ASP functionality would only make their lives even more complicated, and would never get used.

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