RE: Fast400 Value to iSeries community is less than zero

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
>
>
>
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