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(From Network Computing Asian Edition)
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N1?s computing-on-demand to drive network services N1?s computing-on-demand to drive network services
The next big thing for Sun, and the industry, is the N1 architecture, which will simply treat the network as a computer.
Since we entered the business 20 years ago, the definition of a system has remained constant amid rapid refinements. The components have always included processors, disks, memory, and network I/O.
For the next 20 years, things will look much different. In the N1 architecture, the components will include computers, storage systems, and IP networks.
In the current view of computer systems, the units of work are known as processes. Moving forward, the units of work will be Web services. N1 is designed to create a single pool of resources that can be dynamically provisioned to meet the needs of a whole list of services. Yousef Khalidi, a Sun Microsystems engineer and principle architect behind N1, said that the idea behind N1 is to match resources to services to services on the fly. ?Whenever demand for a service goes up or down, the N1 ...