Re:The slab and the permacomputer
by machinerychorus on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:35PM
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> Certainly the "edge" could be even closer to the end user than data centers would allow.
Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones code and execute it locally. Reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1367/
however, after typing that out I think I see what you really meant: if I'm running something compute intense, why can't I just borrow cpu from a couple neighbors instead of going all the way to the datacenter?
Sandboxing would be important, but it would also be pretty hard to build applications that really take advantage of this model. concurrency on one machine is hard enough!
Re:The slab and the permacomputer
by brundolf on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:00AM
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Containers, and especially lambdas, have made the units of the cloud more and more granular. I don't think you'd have to think about concurrency any more than you already do
Isn't this essentially what browser+js does? you download someones code and execute it locally. Reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1367/
however, after typing that out I think I see what you really meant: if I'm running something compute intense, why can't I just borrow cpu from a couple neighbors instead of going all the way to the datacenter?
Sandboxing would be important, but it would also be pretty hard to build applications that really take advantage of this model. concurrency on one machine is hard enough!