Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 23 July 2007 15:21 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Defence ramps up Linux cluster development
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| The Department of Defence is developing additional software components for
>>>| an existing multi-channel, multi-processor Linux cluster used as an RF test
>>>| system.
>>>|
>>>| Linux and open source software is used widely within Defence, but it has
>>>| been less than forthcoming in publicising it.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1711369977;fp;2;fpid;1
>>
>> I have the feeling that this is true pretty much everywhere.
>
> Yes, that's why I wrote "Governments" in the subject line, not "Aussie
> Government". Can you think of a government department that takes pride in its
> Windows array? How long before they get scrutinised for having PCs with
> sensitive public data hijacked (data theft -> replication -> data pools all
> around the world, sold for just a buck per million records). Since many
> indicdent go unnoticed/unannounced, it's highly improbably that personal data
> about people like us has not travelled the world. All it takes is one of these
> remotely exploitable 0-day flaws in Windows. They seem to have several every
> month.
>
Indeed they do. I think an interesting project would be to look at how
a wide-area cluster could be built which could host virtual machines,
independently of the supporting layer, with data and process separation
between the machines (proper for data protection and so on), which
allowing a virtual network to exist between those machines.
Essentially, you make the user-perceived network into a completely virtual
entity, and the actual network is the thing which has as its highest
invisible layer a virtualisation layer, sat on load-sharing middleware,
sat on whatever processing, messaging, storage and transport capability
is available.
Then, you just give people access to this large machine through whatever
convenient thin-client you have available, and off we go.
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