Are any of you familiar with this technology? It's being produced by a startup company here in St. Louis (http://www.appistry.com). Their claim is that they can take a set of commodity machines and create a linear scalable, real-time viritual system that is viewed by the application as a single-processor. Not only does the system provide scaling but also incredible fault tolerance since any machine that fails can simply be pulled out and replaced without having to shutdown the entire system. The kicker, if I'm reading this right, is that the software allows you to take an existing application written for a single processor and in a matter of days adapt it to run on a distributed system.

I want to call BS on this given the difficulties, but their client list, and the software that those clients are entrusting them with, make me think that there is actually something to the technology. My CS is a bit rusty right now, so I figure I'd bring it to you guys to get your opinion.

4/5/2007 6:06:58 PM

Sounds alot like Google's business model.

Get a bajillion COTS machines and make them run as one. Sounds very feasible and if this startup is selling it commerically, great!

4/6/2007 9:32:26 AM