September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 40m
English
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CHAPTER 8How Cloud-Served Supercomputing Will Disrupt the Practice of Scaling
The network is the computer.
JOHN GAGE
John Gage was the first person we ever heard talk about the network being the computer. It was the 1980s, Bob recalls, when Gage first said, “The network is the computer,” and it was a visionary aspiration back then. At that time, John Gage was the chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. (This is also when Eric Schmidt was the chief technologist at Sun—long before he went to Google as CEO and led Google’s push to create cloud-served supercomputing.)
Within the next decade, it finally will become true: the network will be the computer and cloud-served supercomputing will ...