Duane,
I meant to add this link to the FIPA JXTA Discovery Middleware
Specification http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00096/. Your comment
reminded me. I think that it gives an indication of how the P2P and
Agent Communities are working together to provide discovery.
Zachary Alexander
The IT Investment Architect
ebTDesign LLC, (703) 283-4325
http://www.ebTDesign.com
http://www.p2pspeaker.com
http://www.p2peconomy.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Nickull [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:22 PM
To: Farrukh Najmi
Cc:
Subject: Re: [regrep] [Fwd: SemPGRID04: Call for Paper (DATE
CORRECTIONS!)]
Farrukh Najmi wrote:
> I know very little about grid computing right now but my gut instinct
> is that ebXML Registry can play an important role as an enabling
> technology even today.
<SNIP/>
Farrukh:
I concur. A great software company once said "The network is the
computer" ;-)
Like a single CPU system, a distributed computing system can benefit
from a registry. I personally like the MS Windows Registry model
(please - no flames from Linux zealots). The registry contains keys
that identify system resources to be called when needed. A distributed
computing model can benefit from a registry in the same way.
Perhaps the paper could compare the usefulness of the Windows Registry
system and point out that the ebXML Registry could provide a similar
service for distributed computing?
BTW - I personally don't believe that distributed computing will ever
become mainstream since the network lags incurred and multiplicity of
possible points of failure seem to mitigate any perceived advantage.
IMHO - the whole concept seems to be a "we're doing this just because
we can" technologist driven exercise. Single calls to BSI's are more
likely.
Duane Nickull
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