Comments on: Why is the Digipede network good for Windows environments? http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/06/02/why-is-the-digipede-network-good-for-windows-environments/ Databases, code and all things agile. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:03:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: The Hive Archive » Blog Archive » The Coming Battle Over Grid Computing and Internet Services http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/06/02/why-is-the-digipede-network-good-for-windows-environments/#comment-1427 The Hive Archive » Blog Archive » The Coming Battle Over Grid Computing and Internet Services Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:48:03 +0000 http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/06/02/why-is-the-digipede-network-good-for-windows-environments/#comment-1427 <p>[...] A comment I left on Wes Maldonado’s blog has started a conversation about grid computing. He posted on Digipede, a Windows centric way to do distributed computing and I responded that it would be “nice” not to be forced to do this type of work on an operating system that required a GUI. That set off another post about cost effectiveness and using existing infrastructure, points I don’t disagree with. [...]</p> [...] A comment I left on Wes Maldonado’s blog has started a conversation about grid computing. He posted on Digipede, a Windows centric way to do distributed computing and I responded that it would be “nice” not to be forced to do this type of work on an operating system that required a GUI. That set off another post about cost effectiveness and using existing infrastructure, points I don’t disagree with. [...]

]]> By: Dan Ciruli http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/06/02/why-is-the-digipede-network-good-for-windows-environments/#comment-1426 Dan Ciruli Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:56:14 +0000 http://www.brokenbuild.com/blog/2006/06/02/why-is-the-digipede-network-good-for-windows-environments/#comment-1426 <p>I think Hadoop is probably pretty cool, but I'm siding with you on this one, Wes. There are absolutely applications that Hadoop (and Java) are perfect for--there are also applications where .NET is the perfect choice. I'm not one to try to preach platforms.</p> <p>And as for wasted electricity--turn off the monitors! Or, better yet, run on headless servers! That's what many of our customers do. Some indeed cycle scavenge from desktops (by the way, when you do that, you should either turn off the monitor or use a blank screen-saver; don't waste CPU cycles doing 3D renderings of pipes!).</p> <p>So, while I agree with Matt's sentiment (don't waste electricity), I understand his reference (Hadoop is cool), I don't get his conclusion: ignore Windows and .NET.</p> I think Hadoop is probably pretty cool, but I’m siding with you on this one, Wes. There are absolutely applications that Hadoop (and Java) are perfect for–there are also applications where .NET is the perfect choice. I’m not one to try to preach platforms.

And as for wasted electricity–turn off the monitors! Or, better yet, run on headless servers! That’s what many of our customers do. Some indeed cycle scavenge from desktops (by the way, when you do that, you should either turn off the monitor or use a blank screen-saver; don’t waste CPU cycles doing 3D renderings of pipes!).

So, while I agree with Matt’s sentiment (don’t waste electricity), I understand his reference (Hadoop is cool), I don’t get his conclusion: ignore Windows and .NET.

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