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The future calculus of memory management

The future calculus of memory management

Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:17 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: The future calculus of memory management by vlovich
Parent article: The future calculus of memory management

One good way to lease memory to someone else is to let him run his stuff on your processor and send the results back via IP network.


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The future calculus of memory management

Posted Jan 21, 2012 1:38 UTC (Sat) by vlovich (guest, #63271) [Link]

Sure, but that's essentially how AWS works. It's how all distributed algorithms work. But it's never transparent. You still need to design the program to run distributed to begin with. That's not what was being proposed in the article though - it was some kind of amorphous build a "cloud" of RAM & rent it out & have it all work transparently.

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