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MIT Project Athena: A Model for Distributed Campus Computing
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I really thought AFS, DCE, and SSI (single system image) were going to take over. It was kind of depressing when I got a job and everything was NIS/NFS and we manually logged into a machine and started a job.
Then we got clustering software like LFS to distribute jobs but I thought the dynamic process migration using checkpoint / restart kind of stuff would take over but it seems to be more trouble than it is worth.
At work we would always run stuff off a powerful 4 to 16 CPU Sun and display to our cheaper SPARCstation 5 or Linux desktop via X11.
I will say it is great now to have a virtual desktop session Exceed/NoMachine/X2go and be able to go home and connect to it and have all my windows in the same place just like when I left. I've got X2go set up at home so even when I travel I can get a desktop at home if I need it.
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