Comments on: India and Utility Computing http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/11/20/india-and-utility-computing/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:41:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anant http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/11/20/india-and-utility-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Anant Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/11/20/214#comment-478 Indeed...the next big thing would be some sort of a utility computing wherein people have access to the resources they do not own. Grid Computing, which is still in the research phase, is coming up on similar lines wherein people would be able to share not just the processing cycles or hard disk space but also centralized devices that would be able to cater to the needs of hundreds of clients, thus removing redundancy in the sense that every individual client need not install its own centralized device. Indeed…the next big thing would be some sort of a utility computing wherein people have access to the resources they do not own.

Grid Computing, which is still in the research phase, is coming up on similar lines wherein people would be able to share not just the processing cycles or hard disk space but also centralized devices that would be able to cater to the needs of hundreds of clients, thus removing redundancy in the sense that every individual client need not install its own centralized device.

]]> By: uspeed http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/11/20/india-and-utility-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-479 uspeed Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/11/20/214#comment-479 Utility computing is fine and its an elegant solution, but an economic case for such thin clients has to be made. For instance, what shall be the costs of connecting the clients to the central servers ? What about the cost of providing data security to communications ? Reliability ? Scalability ? Who shall bear the cost of the servers ? Besides, the cost of "production of services" doesnt go down as more and more services are produced. It goes up as more and more exotic hardware is used to support greater production of services. The marginal utility added per $ spent on harware decreases rapidly once one moves beyond the optimal point. Anyhow, I think its a fairly involved excercise to work out the economics and technology challenges involved in the solution. Would love to read more about it if theres anything online. Utility computing is fine and its an elegant solution, but an economic case for such thin clients has to be made. For instance, what shall be the costs of connecting the clients to the central servers ? What about the cost of providing data security to communications ? Reliability ? Scalability ? Who shall bear the cost of the servers ? Besides, the cost of “production of services” doesnt go down as more and more services are produced. It goes up as more and more exotic hardware is used to support greater production of services. The marginal utility added per $ spent on harware decreases rapidly once one moves beyond the optimal point.

Anyhow, I think its a fairly involved excercise to work out the economics and technology challenges involved in the solution. Would love to read more about it if theres anything online.

]]> By: uspeed http://www.deeshaa.org/2004/11/20/india-and-utility-computing/comment-page-1/#comment-480 uspeed Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://home.blogstreet.com/2004/11/20/214#comment-480 I was assuming I wud check ur comments section again for ur reply. Didnt leave my email as I dont want it to be harvested by bots :-) Its j s u d e e p [at] y a h o o . c o . i n (no spaces, no underscores, nothing). Ill go through the IBM journal and use ur comment box to gas after Ive done so :-P I was assuming I wud check ur comments section again for ur reply. Didnt leave my email as I dont want it to be harvested by bots :-)

Its j s u d e e p [at] y a h o o . c o . i n

(no spaces, no underscores, nothing).

Ill go through the IBM journal and use ur comment box to gas after Ive done so :-P

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