On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 03:01:32AM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
On 7/18/10, Jerry Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:
Everything you listed is interactive realtime or near-realtime graphics intensive. A cloud is not really suited to that kind of task to begin with.
I don't inderstand why it should be so.
How does the online gaming work? and who renders it?
This is where what you don't know is hurting you. Online gaming works because the gamers have computers - whether PCs or game machines - with considerable resources. It will not work to a dumb terminal or thin client.
And you appear to be additionally attempting to find out if you could use an *existing* cloud (for example Amazon EC2) to do it - meaning not only are you talking about an architecture that isn't really suited to the problem, you are talking about putting it behind *SLOW* network connections to boot.
Agreed, as EC2 performance as limited by last mile speed. But Then why should I be limited by something which is hosted not in India?
It's the "last mile" to the client that matters. Where the hosts are isn't the problem or the solution.
Never-mind how *fast* a cloud is (or is not), you can't move the rendered bits back and forth to a desktop over a remote network connection at any kind of sane speed.
- Why should Indian universities and its students be denied such a
computing facility despite having fibre speed connectivity within campus/area?
What is this, a social justice argument? If you want good computers for students and house holders, go to One Laptop Per Child. If you want good computers for university students, give them a budget to get ahold of the parts and build their own. You can build an incredibly powerful system, for local use, for very little money, even in rupees.
I am clear that it is a technological possibility (rather, more of a probability).
So is doing this all with quantum-computing nanomachines hovering invisibly in the air around us. However let me say with considerable confidence that those won't run CentOS. And if they form a cloud, it will be totally unlike any cloud we know today.
Whit