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Dynasoar and Virtual Machines (part 1 – The concept and the architecture)
Here’s something fun I’ve been working on lately (relates to something I blogged about back in November 2004). Motivation Dynasoar is a research effort within NEReSC to define a service-oriented architecture for the dynamic deployment and hosting of services on the Internet (or Grid for those of you who prefer “in” buzzwords 🙂 It clearly…
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Nerding out in the open
Sam Aaron (one of our PhD students here in Newcastle) is having some fun with the photos from my web site and his new toy application. Very cool 🙂
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Microsoft Architecture Journal: “Service-oriented, Distributed, High-Performance Computing”
Back from holidays today (the reason I haven’t been bloging) and started the task of cleaning up my mailbox. As I was going through my messages I saw that issue 5 of the Microsoft Architecture Journal has been published. This issue includes an article that Jim and I wrote months ago about “Service-oriented, Distributed, High-Performance…
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On the road again!
Since yesterday I am on the road again. I spent most of my day at Manchester having some discussions with Dean Kuo (of Rules SSDL Protocol Framework fame) and catching up with Mark McKeown and Stephen Pickles. It was nice to see these guys again. I am now at Manchester airport towards the end of…
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Web Services are RPC?
Continuing the exchange of comments with Michi Henning here are some more thoughts. Michi argues that “WS is *RPC*, by definition” . This is a definition that I haven’t come across. I personally see a big difference between a request-response message exchange pattern and a Remote Procedure Call. The SOAP processing model and the focus…
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e-Science job vacancies in Newcastle
If you are into e-Science, there are many opportunities at Newcastle. Check the research and academic vacancies pages for openings in many related disciplines.
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Michi Henning’s comment formatted
Here’s Michi’s comment to my last post with the formatting preserved: Savas, my five cents worth, as usual… > We are even starting seeing hardware products to help with XML processing. Now, *that’s* really quite something. Translation: “The processing overheads of SOAP are so staggeringly high that the only way to get acceptable performance is…
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“Smart people defending bad ideas”?
In a recent post, Jim argued that SOAP performance is getting better and linked to a couple of articles presenting performance measurements. Of course everyone agrees that processing an XML document has its overheads. And of course, SOAP messages are XML documents. Michi Henning commented on Jim‘s post arguing in favour of ICE and its…
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Thanks to everyone
Thanks to everyone for all the comments and the private emails. I am really looking forward to the job at Microsoft and the big change in my personal life. Interesting times ahead. I am going to continue to blog about some of the Grid-related things I am still doing for Newcastle but the countdown has…
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Back from travelling
Just wanted to break my recent silence. I am back from travelling. Glastonbury was FANTASTIC! Went to GGF 14 after that. I’ve been doing some interesting stuff with Virtual Server and Indigo while in Chicago. Expect a blog post soon. Today I spent most of my time converting all my personal CDs to MP3s. Wow!…