Comment Comment by kazinator Alan Perlis Epigram #5: If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.You're not going to very much that it is interesting with abstractions designed to pump around a huge volume of data through a distributed system.Maybe that's why the papers are vaguely written, avoiding the topic of describing concrete use cases.The paper hints at the cloud, but not everything in the cloud handles a large, monolithic chunk of data.Nothing in the paper convinces me that you need a special operating system with new abstractions right in the kernel, rather than just middleware. parent kazinator 12 years ago
You're not going to very much that it is interesting with abstractions designed to pump around a huge volume of data through a distributed system.
Maybe that's why the papers are vaguely written, avoiding the topic of describing concrete use cases.
The paper hints at the cloud, but not everything in the cloud handles a large, monolithic chunk of data.
Nothing in the paper convinces me that you need a special operating system with new abstractions right in the kernel, rather than just middleware.