HPC (High Performance Compute) Architecture

[Josh Leverette]

http://www.onlive.com ? But yeah, I was wanting this to be user transparent for all applications, since there is no way we could modify proprietary applications that use a lot of processor real estate and this would be a one time deal, no need to do it on an app by app basis. But, I understand.

On Mar 17, 2011, at 11:42 AM, "jonsmirl at gmail.com" <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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