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August 18, 2008
Backup to the Compute Cloud
Many computer generations ago, Sun Microsystems adopted the slogan, "the network is the computer." There have been numerous cycles of computer buzzword since then but they are mostly just elaborations on that idea. "Grid computing" has been a popular buzzword in recent years, applied to a wide range of distributed computing configurations as I discussed in this article. Of the three categories of grid computing discussed in that article, cloud computing is most like a generalization of the "Space" concept as implemented in JavaSpaces.
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