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Joe, So.. is grid computing based on C/S architecture, then? Heard of grid, but don't know much about it. Also, I understand fully that there are vast differences between C/S and the Web Services model that's (supposedly) emerging. But are there fundamental conceptual differences...? Or would it be correct to say that the general C/S method just lends itself, naturally, to a Web Services implementation...? If you feel like commenting, no rush... (Getting late...) jt > -----Original Message----- > From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com > [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta > Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 10:49 PM > To: midrange-l@midrange.com > Subject: RE: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Richter > > > > The only tradeoff I see that justifies the client/server model > is the low > > horsepower of a CFINT system. > > Just to name a few: > > 1. The ability to have services on different machines. > 2. The ability to have services on different platforms. > 3. The ability to have different user interfaces for the same business > logic. > 4. The ability to offload work to dedicated subprocessors. > 5. The ability to dynamically assign more resources to critical work. > 6. The ability to have databases that span machines, platforms and media. > 7. The ability to incorporate new technology that you haven't even thought > of yet. > 8. The ability to broadcast transactions to multiple environments. > 9. The ability to bridge multiple systems seamlessly. > > All of this is completely transparent to the application in a distributed > programming environment. The message broker can route > transactions wherever > they need to go. Work units can be spread among multiple processors as > appropriate. This is nice to allow load balancing that favors data entry > during the day and batch processing at night. Jobs can be sent to other > machines. This is great when a task begins to consume too many > resources on > your host (for example, converting spooled files to PDF documents > - you can > easily offload this process). A transaction can be broadcast to multiple > sites (this is especially important when merging multiple systems). The > broker can translate a request from one format to another when it > recognizes > that the data needs to come from an application other than the originating > application. > > A client/server, or distributed, architecture provides the > flexibility that > allows systems to interact seamlessly without writing all kinds of > system-specific integration code. > > Joe Pluta > www.plutabrothers.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com > Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. >
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