Whitepaper Request:The Data-Centric Future, Part II: Performance

Abstract:
The Rise of Data-Centric Programming
The network is profoundly changing the nature of system design. The "web" is just a first step; the Internet today focuses on connecting people at human interaction speeds. Future networks will connect vast arrays of cooperating machines at rates meaningful to physical processes. These connections make truly distributed applications possible. Distributed applications will drive the future in many areas, from military information systems to financial trading to transportation.

The network itself is only part of the required technology. Today´s network makes it easy to connect nodes, but not easy to find and access the information resident in networks of connected nodes. This is changing; we will soon assume the ability to pool information from many distributed sources, and access it at rates meaningful to physical processes. Many label this new capability the "network centric" architecture. We prefer the term "data centric" because the change, fundamentally, is driven by a fast and easy availability of information, not the connectivity of the network itself. Whatever the name, it will drive the development of vast, distributed, information-critical applications.

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