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SunWorld Distributing computing the GNU way
"We often mention distributed computing models: JavaSpaces, Sash, BizTalk, WebL, and so on. Our lead column in August gave particular attention to the technical prospects for Microsoft's .NET initiative. Piper is an alternative to those models, and .NET in particular, on both engineering and business levels.
Microsoft, for example, has specific business motivations with .NET that involve licensing issues and how the company is paid for its products. Crudely, Microsoft wants to use .NET capabilities to ensure it receives payment every time its software is used. Piper, in contrast, is a free software project to make "anything and everything buildable by linking small components," even across a network, according to J.W. Bizzaro, director of Bioinformatics.org. "
"Moreover, Piper's connections are considerably richer than Unix's pipes. Rather than just a one-way, unstructured datafeed, Piper "[l]inks can depict protocol-independent data flow, procedural steps, and relationships," according to one Piper document. Moreover, those links "can merge or split streams."
Most compelling of all, perhaps, is the opportunity to escape the confines of a single desktop and access resources throughout a rich network. Piper knows how to do that, too." [via bioinformatics.org]
bioinformatics.org piper
"Piper is a system for managing multi-protocol connections between Internet-distributed objects. Networks, programs, files, widgets, and so on, are all treated as objects and represented in a graphical user interface (GUI) as the nodes of a flow chart (with the Pied/Piper user interface). The user can join nodes via lines that depict links for data flow, procedural steps, relationships, and so forth.
The Internet-distributed nature of Piper lets the user work in a unique way: Only the graphical representation of an object resides on a local workstation. Compute-intensive programs and large data sets can reside remotely on high-performance, high-capacity computers.
Joining nodes across the Internet can also be used to form world-wide collaboratives (such as The Loci Project) and provide an almost limitless collection of objects for the user. "
“Bioinformatics will be at the core of biology in the 21st century. In fields ranging from structural biology to genomics to biomedical imaging, ready access to data and analytical tools are fundamentally changing the way investigators in the life sciences conduct research and approach problems. Complex, computationally intensive biological problems are now being addressed and promise to significantly advance our understanding of biology and medicine. No biological discipline will be unaffected by these technological breakthroughs.”
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