[11097] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: uniform policies at the NAPs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Mon Mar 21 23:51:47 1994
From: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 1994 22:15:53 GMT
In-Reply-To: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu (Hans-Werner Braun)
"Re: uniform policies at the NAPs" (Mar 20, 5:52pm)
To: hwb@upeksa.sdsc.edu, swb1@cornell.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
gee, hans werner aside from the issue of where you work and you own
intrenched
interests in keeping funding for your research projects coming, you mean to
tell
me you have now solved the latency problems associated with the speed of
light over wide area networks?
I talked over some of these issues with a PhD physicist whom I have knwon
since 1987 and who for longer than that has been a systems programmer for
supercomputers... first for control data and since may of 1990 for Cray.
He said he considered it ludicrous to assume that supers could do meaningful
simultaneous parallel processing with each other over WANs. That is one
machine working one part of the algorithm while the other works the remainder.
What would the centers use the vBNS for? Well center a could transfer a major
database via the net to center b so that someone there could use it in a
simulation and whne done return it to center "a"
what about runnning a visualization of a process in real time and being able
to "steer" the simulation based on the results of the visualization?
His answer....very difficult but might become doable by the vbns if it had
sufficiently few hops. Of course the same effect could be achieved by having
the computational scientist on site. More than a few airplance tickets could
be purchased for the $50 million I think.
Now I know you will have technical knowledge that you will likely blow my
obsvervations away with. What's more i won't wind up replying because I'll be
off line for three days in a few hours at a meeting in DC.
I know you and Scott can have fun doing more research. What I am less sure of
is why you expect the taxpayerto underwrite you considering all the other
problem this country is suffering from.... Just my 2 cents worth.
