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November 26, 2004
Grid, SOA, Linda, and TurboWorx
Just read an article about TurboWorx in the September issue of Doctor Dobb's Journal. The full article is available here. The TurboWorx platform is a combination of several cool concepts for building robust distributed apps:
(1) Simple component architecture to encapsulate scripts and executables
(2) Visual programming language to build workflows from components
(3) Runtime for component execution, load-balancing
(4) Servers for tuple storage
TurboWorx's founders are one-degree of separation from David Gelernter, the professor who developed the Linda distributed computing model which powers the TurboWorx platform (among other things--check out his Lifestreams project).
What's TurboWorx useful for? The current killer app is large-scale biometrics R&D, which requires integrating massive databases and scripts running on multiple platforms. From my initial impressions, it seems feasible to implement a miniature version of the Google Cluster Architecture on this platform and integrate some server-side goodies like Spidering Hacks and an autonomous citation indexing engine.
Posted by Devon at November 26, 2004 03:50 PM
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