MS Bigtop
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Found on Microsoft
Watch. Details of Bigtop… the grid computing initiative from MS:
Bigtop consists of three components, all written in C#, according developers who
said they were briefed by Microsoft. These are:
Highwire: Highwire is a technology designed to automate the development of highly
parallel applications that distribute work over distributed resources, the aforementioned
sources said. Highwire is a programming language/model that will aim to make the testing
and compiling of such parallel programs much simpler and more reliable.- Bigparts: Bigparts is code designed to turn inexpensive PC devices into special-purpose
servers, according to the sources. Bigparts will enable real-time, device-specific
software to be moved off a PC, and instead be managed centrally via some Web-services-like
model.- Bigwin: According to sources close to Microsoft, Bigwin sounds like the ultimate
manifestation of Microsoft’s “software as a service” mantra. In a Bigwin world, applications
are just collections of OS services that adhere to certain “behavioral contracts.”
These OS services can be provided directly by the core OS or even obtained from libraries
outside of the core OS.
This WILL kick ass and it WILL enable new and interesting software. I am very keen
to see more of this. Why? Because MS is a developers company and they make fantastic
developer tools.
