[Info-vax] Distributed Applications, Hashgraph, Automation

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/20/2018 2:57 PM, IanD wrote:
> On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 6:53:40 AM UTC+11, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/14/2018 1:52 PM, IanD wrote:
>>> This is indeed interesting news
>>>
>>> I know it was posted a while ago but I just saw it
>>>
>>> https://www.swirlds.com/vms-software-selects-swirlds-hashgraph-as-platform-to-build-secure-distributed-applications/
>>
>>> I wonder if Hashgraph has the ability to ultimately replace cluster
>>> traffic on OpenVMS? It's supposed to scale to I think 200K
>>> transactions per second, according to the glossy brouchers at least
>> I think it is a business application thing not an OS thing.
>>
>> [application clusters are in many ways doing the same as OS clusters,
>> but ...]
>>
>> After all it is a J thing.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> Yes, it is an application thing
> 
> But the throughout and number of nodes possible was the interesting point to me
> 
> I thought if it could be adapted (and I have no idea if it can be,
> I've only watched some video's etc and read the glossy brochures)
> then it might be a mechanism to allow scaling of VMS clusters beyond
> the 96 to a few thousand, which I believe Hashgraph can scale to

It may very well be able to.

Most non-sharded persisting clusters with more than 1000 nodes are Java 
based.

But the integration from native to Java would be a hassle.

Arne