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Re: Virtual computing
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Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
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Larry Barnes <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:57:01 -0800
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My understand is, you still own the boxes and are charged for only the
cpu usage used. You have 1 box with 12 processors and if you only use 6
during your peak then you are only charged for 50% of the cpu usage.
This usage is recorded in a log file, of sorts, and transmitted daily to
HP, Big Brother, etc. and they bill you monthly, quarterly,
semi-annually, etc. based on your contract with them.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:38 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Virtual computing


Hi all,

        Last Friday, I gave an example (really basic) of what the new
virtual computing world would be like.  My example used the concept that
two
companies (one on each U.S. coast) could use the same computer without
owning the computer, or conflicting with each others process time.

        One list member responded that this was the old "charge-back
system", and while in some ways it is, what I left out in my example was
the
very important point that in the virtual computing world, you will not
know
(or care) where the computer(s) that you are using are physically
located.
Your process may be distributed over the entire globe, and using a
hundred
different boxes at the same time.

        So, I hope this helps clear up my example (that appeared to
confuse
more than it helped to explain).   ;-)


Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us,
and so much bad in the best of us,
that it behooves none of us
to talk about the rest of us"
                  --Robert Louis Stevenson?


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