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AMD Render Fusion – moving from the meta information paradigm to a pixel information paradigm?

March 17, 2009 in CloudViews, News, Technical, User Interfaces by pcalcada | No comments

In his blog, Simon Solotko, talks about how Render Fusion could change the way the Cloud and the clients  interact. His vision is very futuristic, and it contains a little “Blade Runner” like thoughts, but I think that we need this kind of vision.  As a summary of his vision I have selected the following part of his text.

“Rendering in the Cloud can solve the bandwidth problem by capping the bandwidth problem. All I need to do is refresh a screen with data at a particular resolution appropriate to the client’s screen and available bandwidth. No additional bandwidth needed between the client and the server, ever – only three variables, screen size, interface visual integrity, and upstream user input. Peak bandwidth requirements become fixed and predictable.”
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Is this Cloud thing something new?

January 3, 2009 in Basic Views by hugo.mag | No comments

For my first post here I going to answer this question (sort of):

To be honest I was skeptical about Cloud Computing:
Having seen in that in the past some acronyms and hypes showing up I think its natural.
One of them was Ajax. Ajax is just creating one word to sum a bunch of technologies: (X)HTML + DOM + CSS + Javascript. Don’t get me wrong, I think that we need the acronyms, they are useful for communication but they don’t necessary add anything new.

One other acronym that I found interesting was ASP (Application Service Provider). ASP at first seemed to me just a way to say that we would sell our same desktop applications as a service. It was not a new technology, a new application or a new standard but just a new revenue model. Was this a small change? At first I thought so, but then I realized that this was a shift from the normal way of doing things and that opened the door for new companies that started building applications from scratch for the internet.
At that time someone (don’t remember who) called this new companies ASP2. This acronym had a short life (thankfully!) and the term Software as a Service (and the acronym SaaS) appeared.

Affer SaaS, other related acronyms started to pop up: SaaS, HaaS, PaaS, etc. and for me personally I need to figure out if they are bringing something new. In the future I will write something about them.

Right now I’m interest in writing about Could Computing. So what is it? Is just a new name?
For me Could Computing is more than just a new name, its again an interesting shift from the normal way we currently developed and sell software. This new term is not just the sum of several technologies but a change of paradigm that brings a lot of questions with it: What new applications will it bring? What new revenue models will appear? How will developers use it and how will they adapt? Will customers see any benefits? Who will be the big players in this field?

Bellow you can see some links that show some useful information about the Cloud:
- Demystifying Cloud Computing (sent by Paulo)
- Cloud in Plain English
- Cloud computing

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