Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser

Re:Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web ... by walterbell on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @01:57PM (#9139761)

If data provides competitive advantage, while compute is commoditized, there is no need for a false dichotomy between cloud and local. Future hybrid architecture can fluidly move the line between local and distributed compute, including other-peoples-algorithms, fusing local (secure, private, competitive, licensed) data/algos with public data/algos.

Local storage and local compute continue to fall in cost.

As long as humans remain sensitive to subsecond latency of repeated stimulus, and the speed of light remains unchanged, local user interfaces will offer competititve advantages.

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Re:Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web ... by weland on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @04:17AM (#9143360)

> Future hybrid architecture can fluidly move the line between local and distributed compute, including other-peoples-algorithms, fusing local (secure, private, competitive, licensed) data/algos with public data/algos.

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy graybeard, it's impressive how all of these things have been implemented at least in Plan 9 for almost twenty years now.

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Re:Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web ... by walterbell on Wednesday March 04, 2015 @06:37AM (#9143677)

Thanks for the pointer. Could you recommend any Plan9 docs on these features? Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else?

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Re:Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web ... by weland on Thursday March 12, 2015 @11:47AM (#9191497)

Ah, crap, I saw your reply only now :(.

The Plan 9 documentation is pretty good, but 9front's introductory documents ( https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/wiki/fqa ) are probably a little better to get your feet wet with.

> Are Plan9 users mostly running on bare-metal or VMs? If the latter, would you recommend VMware, Xen or something else?

Both, I guess... VirtualBox is the only one I tried it on. Its distributed nature makes it fairly easy to run it on a server and connect to that from a system running Plan 9 from User Space (see http://swtch.com/plan9port/ ), so that you also get a... well, a functional desktop, I guess.

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