"People are already getting lost in this amount of complexity," he says.
The good news is that network servers can be tuned to do pretty much anything we ask them to do. The bad news? What we want from them tends to change in ways we can't always predict.
"The only thing people can do now to make these systems work well is to set by hand multitudes of different parameters and policies," Vengerov says.
But they can never be sure that those parameters and policies are really the best, because the environment is so often in flux.
A researcher in Sun Labs, Vengerov is part of an emerging consensus that large-scale systems need to be self-managing and self-optimizing. What sets him apart are his algorithms and his experience in applying them to complex real-world problems.
David,
Hard to get ahold of you even though so many sites say:
EMAIL ME... EMAIL ME...
Well... I used a quote of yours for today’s Quote of the Day:
http://www.qm21.com/dialoguetr.html
Friday/ September 4 ~ 2009
The teachings of the Therevada Buddhist tradition form the basis for any further spiritual development, such as mystical searches for God. A very famous 20th century Christian mystic and philosopher, Simone Weil, suggests this connection in her book Waiting for God. During the prayers Simone Weil suggests that one should be empty of all concepts and attachments, because "God can't come to visit you unless you aren't there." ~ David Vengerov (Books On Spiritual Development: http://research.sun.com/people/vengerov/books.html)
To Awaken is to let go of control and self observe
Thought you might enjoy seeing it.
If you see the site and wish to correspond feel free.
Sincerely,
Derek Lamar
http://www.qm21.com
Posted by Dr. Derek Lamar on September 04, 2009 at 12:41 AM PDT #