Comments on: Infrastructure Capability and Value: Great Architectures need Great Plumbing http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/07/14/infrastructure-capability-and-valuegreat-architectures-need-great/ Computer Science meets Social Science Thu, 24 May 2012 21:39:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wattersj http://siliconangle.com/blog/2009/07/14/infrastructure-capability-and-valuegreat-architectures-need-great/comment-page-1/#comment-422 wattersj Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:37:59 +0000 http://siliconangle.com/ver2/2009/07/14/infrastructure-capability-and-valuegreat-architectures-need-great/#comment-422 It seems there are two big points here at least; virtualization and the elastic scaling of the network capacity(to 10 lanes). <br><br>Its scary how little discussion happens about the network inside AWS. Right now the EC2 instances can pump out content often faster than the S3 storage or perhaps other nodes can handle it. I don't think we should accept that just because it's the way it is today?<br><br>Node-node network capability seems to be a big hurdle to moving away from the parallel, load balanced and batch oriented workloads we have today. Right now the software really is constrained by the hardware. It seems there are two big points here at least; virtualization and the elastic scaling of the network capacity(to 10 lanes).

Its scary how little discussion happens about the network inside AWS. Right now the EC2 instances can pump out content often faster than the S3 storage or perhaps other nodes can handle it. I don't think we should accept that just because it's the way it is today?

Node-node network capability seems to be a big hurdle to moving away from the parallel, load balanced and batch oriented workloads we have today. Right now the software really is constrained by the hardware.

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