HPC (High Performance Compute) Architecture

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (And I have been known to get overexcited about ideas sometimes, which may cause an idea to go from cool to killer)

A couple of years ago there was a startup doing exactly this for video
games. They would buy video games and let you play them remotely on
their servers. The game displays were converted into real-time video
streams. You paid by the hour. I've lost track of the company and
can't remember its name. You can do this in any OS, it does not need
Wayland support.

All of these remoting technologies are focused on providing network
transparent access to legacy apps. Since this is the world of open
source, another strategy is to simply alter those legacy apps to use a
network transparent UI like HTML5. If OpenOffice were converted to
HTML5 you could still run it standalone by running both the client and
sever pieces on the same machine.

>
> Sincerely,
>   Josh
>
> On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Josh Leverette <coder543 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ah, ok, it's good to hear something remotely (no pun intended) similar is in the works. And I don't predict lion taking over by any means, just being the best for a little while, even if expensive, and that windows hasn't been feature competitive with Linux in at least a couple of years in my opinion.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>   Josh
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly, it is identically equal to "remote Wayland protocol".  Except that this iSwifter thing is specific to remoting Flash applications.
>>>
>>> Speaking of which there is a GSOC'11 proposal over on X.org to do the remote Wayland protocol.
>>>
>>> The parts about Lion taking over the world I am skeptical of seeing that to my knowledge Lion is only going to run on hardware supplied by Apple, which is a tiny fraction of all hardware.
>>>
>>> But, don't let me dissuade anyone, it is open source and people should feel free to work on anything they think is valuable.
>>>
>>> On 03/16/2011 10:53 PM, Corbin Simpson wrote:
>>>> Um.
>>>>
>>>> This sounds overly grandiose and not really Wayland-specific. Also, most people don't have lots of iron sitting in their garages. I think you may have upgraded "Wouldn't it be cool if...?" to "Dude, this is a killer feature!"
>>>>
>>>> Sending from a mobile, pardon the brevity. ~ C.
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 16, 2011 7:11 PM, "Josh Leverette" <coder543 at gmail.com <mailto:coder543 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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