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By: Prashant Gandhi

Prashant Gandhi — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:55:01 +0000

Om,

Though both connectivity and computing matter, their relative importance do change depending on time, application workload, device, etc. Ping-ponging between the two will continue unabated… There are times when I crave for a much faster CPU & more memory (e.g. when running VMs on my PC & Mac) and other times when I crave for much faster bandwidth (e.g. when surfing from coffee shop).

Interestingly, both computing and connectivity equipment depend on processors, ASICs and memories (MIPS, Mbps, Mpps, MB) which are bound by fundamental laws of precious electrons…

PG.

By: Fred Stein

Fred Stein — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:16:26 +0000

Excellent points, Richard – and far more relevant than the original post.

By: 10 Things You Don’t Need to Do In the Clouds « SmoothSpan Blog

10 Things You Don’t Need to Do In the Clouds « SmoothSpan Blog — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:05:09 +0000

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By: Manuel No

Manuel No — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:51:27 +0000

I just read your entry trhough the lin at http://technologycritics.wordpress.com/
Though agree with your article as well as Technologycritics’article, I could not deby that Windowslog has a strong point. When we are talking of mobility, MIPS of the terminal is as relevant as it was before. However, it is totally different
A) to think on chanllenging the MIPS of a Data Center by accelerating the speed of each processorthan by multiplying the number of processors and managing their conectivity in a very producting manner
B) to think of increasing MIPS of the terminal, as one of the ways to make the connectivity factor efficient than maintain the challenge on MIPS as the main challenge and the performance of the network (not just bandwith) as a secondary one.

Manuel No

By: Virtual Web Symphony

Virtual Web Symphony — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:04:55 +0000

PC processing is extermely important. It is true that when you have an option of fast access to intenet, you will definietly enjoy that much more than faster processing in localized environ. But faster internet access is also related to CPU speeds.
So in my opinion CPU speeds and Bandwith both are equally important.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 24 May 2009 04:12:12 +0000

outside of the tech/geek crowd people are far less willing to pay for bandwidth than for compute speed. i sell compouters and when i ask a customer why they wat to upgrade the numbe rone answer is either ‘faster downloads’or ‘not waiting for the internet all the time.’i usually suggest that they may be better off upgrading there connection from the basic DSL plan to a faster one or from mobile broadband to a wired one. the usual response is that they want to know what they can spend at once to speed up there connection; but they are unwilling to have any higher recurring monthly charges for the sake of speed.

in addition to fatter pipes we need to be looking at better compresion algrithims and some stadard for send heavily compressed data from the cloud to user clients. this should all be totally transparent to the users.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:04:11 +0000

Totally disagree. I think you need to go back and reread Gruber’s article. Pay attention to the part about NetShare and his superior experience with non-mobile Safari.

@clatko

By: Wai Yip Tung

Wai Yip Tung — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:38:30 +0000

“We are into the last legs of easy upgrades for both CPU power and network speeds” ?

Thank you for raising this point. Finally I have something to say :-) It is now up to us software and application people to push the limit by building more efficient softeware!

By: Todd

Todd — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:28:57 +0000

I would operating system efficiency and browser page rendering speed to the SIP+higher_bandwidth equation.

Chrome and Android running on that new Qualcomm “all in one” chip over WiMax is what we want, and the result would be way faster than merely doubling ( quadrupling? ) the CPU processor speed.

By: gp

gp — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:06:53 +0000

I agree with you here OM ………actually you can summarize current IT trend (apps and data in cloud ) with Sun slogan …”NETWORK IS COMPUTER” …………5 years ago its true for IT geeks for building …massively parallel super computers ….but now with advent with cloud aps ….its become more relevant to normal …………..why download song when you can stream ………access data from any where using cloud devices like pogo plug or cloud syscronization services ……….even core office apps now cloud based ……..like google office , zoho ………………fact of life today is very well work productively with good network connection + cloud apps on netbooks / old hardware

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