Dr. Bart Childs right again: Network Attached Memory

Tue Oct 14 09:18:00 CDT 2008

My last year (1995) at Texas A&M University computer science, I had the pleasure of taking a seminar guided by Dr. Childs. One of the things he mentioned was coming was network memory. Your program will be able to address memory locations that refer to memory not on your machine, but over the network on a different machine.

Today, 2008, I am playing with Terracotta at work. It is intriguing. While the fallacies of network computing still apply, this is an interesting approach to clustering an object graph.

It is a wonderful time to be a developer. It is still profitable. The technology makes leaps on an almost overwhelming pace which increase my productivity. My children will probably never know CORBA, DCOM/COM+/OLE.