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August 31, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Growing Up Grid

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When children are younger they tend to engage in parallel play. Watching and often mimicking each other but not necessarily playing with or interacting with others. Sometime around their second birthday they start to develop relationships and friendships with others. They recognize other children familiar to them and actually play together. Having fun, solving puzzles, and yes, sometimes engaging in conflicts that only seem to last a few seconds.

I can't help but wonder if the Grid Computing revolution is an anthropomorphic equivalent of the social evolution of a two year old.

I remember when I first brought my computer home, it seemed so small and helpless. It needed me for everything. As it learned more applications it would often do similar things as the computers around it. Repeating or doing similar tasks in a similar way, communicating from time to time but not really working with the other computers around it.

Now that it is on the Grid I find that it is learning things without my guiding hand. It is capable of so much more. It is developing complex relationships with other computers and often works with others to accomplish tasks. Sure there are conflicts from time to time, but they resolve themselves quickly and are soon forgotten.

As I look at my computer I cant help but wonder what the future will bring. Who will its friends be? Where will they meet? Will they be friends for a long time? What will my computer want to be when it grows up? Will I be able to survive the teenage years?

*Sigh* computers these days, they grow up so fast...

Posted by Greg Nawrocki on August 31, 2005 07:42 AM

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