[1st-mile-nm] [FRIAM] Kicking the Internet up a notch

Mon Apr 7 15:44:56 PDT 2008

I would like to see a few consumers participate, as well as someone from 
PRC staff.  There are implications of which just these few groups would not 
necessarily be aware.

At 02:58 PM 4/7/2008 -0600, David Breecker wrote:
>Back to Tom's original question:  I'd like to propose that National Lambda 
>Rail, NM Lambda Rail, the NMCAC, the 1st Mile Institute, and the 
>Governor's Science and Technology Advisor would be an appropriate ad hoc 
>task force to see if and how The Grid could reach us here.
>
>If that makes sense, I'll volunteer for service.  Thoughts?
>db
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>On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>>Finally!  This is a good intro to what Don and I have been working on
>>the last couple of weeks.  The network is the computer .. wait .. Sun?
>>
>>Here's step one, the cloud:
>>   <http://www.joyent.com/accelerator>http://www.joyent.com/accelerator
>>Basically we're tracing the newest "hosting" technologies, and believe
>>me, they are changing at light speed.
>>
>>Cloud computing is a brilliant combination of hardware/server
>>advancement .. where small fractions of a "blade" can have its own IP
>>address, to software that "virtualizes" these fractions into dozens of
>>"sites".  And when I say "virtualize", I DEFINITELY do NOT mean VMWare
>>or Parallels.  I mean a fascinating combination of DNS stunts with
>>name-based sub-servers on every "site".  And yes, these services offer
>>clustered systems so you can go from a fraction of a server to
>>multiple servers.
>>
>>Basically Torrents are going to replace streams, and Virtual Servers
>>are going to replace hosting services as we once knew them.  Currently
>>the torrent part is weakest, but we believe we'll see "torrent url's"
>>soon .. stunts where the torrent technology will not be limited to
>>file sharing, but will be a "transport" for any layer in the Internet.
>>
>>To be specific, Don and I have an architecture for hosting that
>>includes two "computers" .. one the typical shared hosting service ..
>>but with GREAT programmer oriented services, an the other a dedicated
>>fraction of a "blade" (with root access).. which bursts up to the full
>>blade, or can advance to clustered.
>>
>>Managing this is a "DNS Management Service" .. yet another web hosting
>>service that lets some of the requests for our domain go to the shared
>>system, and others to the shared .. i.e. a form of load balancing.
>>And for storage, the service has a Network Storage System (Joyent
>>Bingo Disks) that is completely scalable, and on a 100Mb pipe.  All
>>facilities interoperable.
>>
>>Managing all this is a fantastic web based administration package
>>called Virtualmin .. virtual computing administration.  And we can
>>move our Virtualmin system from Joyent to Amazon (S3/EC2) in a day,
>>with Virtualmin's migration facilities.
>>
>>Its not your father's internet any more!
>>
>>See these:
>>   <http://www.joyent.com/>http://www.joyent.com/
>>   http://www.virtualmin.com/
>>   <https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/>https://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/
>>
>>So Tom, the answer to:
>>>Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the
>>>U.S. --
>>>will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
>>.. is very high if we in The Complex decide to work on this.  The
>>pieces are in place.
>>
>>    -- Owen
>>
>>
>>On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>Let's see now: what are the odds we in New Mexico -- hell, in the
>>>U.S. --
>>>will ever see a fraction of this in our home?
>>>
>>><http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023--->http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3689881.ece?print=yes&randnum=1207538948023---
>>>
>>>-- tj
>>>
>>>==========================================
>>>J. T. Johnson
>>>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
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>>><http://www.jtjohnson.com>http://www.jtjohnson.com 
>>><mailto:tom at jtjohnson.com>tom at jtjohnson.com
>>>
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>>>To change something, build a new model that makes the
>>>existing model obsolete."
>>>-- Buckminster Fuller
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