ZenOSmosis Distributed Cloud Computing Platform Announcement
ZenOSmosis, a pre-startup organization for cloud management, which seems to be a little ahead of itself in all aspects, is making some astonishing claims in regards to who they are as a company and where the future may lead in terms of personal computing.
- (1888PressRelease) October 26, 2011 - Based on an idea formed in 2010 by founder Jeremy James Harris, zenOSmosis is quoted as a "compilation of services and offerings which extends current cloud infrastructure from multiple companies and meshes them together as a single service in terms of storage capacity and parallel processing." In essence, Harris believes that his idea of a distributed architecture model can result in processing speeds of much greater power than individual nodes, even on relatively high latency data pipelines, if the overlaying software assigns process forks to take advantage of these distributed process arenas.
"I believe that when most people think of cloud computing, well, I don't really know what they think at all. To me it sounds like some super sci-fi idea that we've somehow harnessed the power of water vapor to perform computation, but I know that it really means the availability of dynamically scaling resource pools to the computational environment," explains Harris.
ZenOSmosis is being built on an auto-morphing system architecture which can expand a particular process fork to as many child forks as necessary, as long as they are available within a pool of other connected nodes. A central database keeps track of which nodes are doing what and allows the software to make decisions on which node to send a particular process to.
This type of scenario might make sense to one with an engineering degree, or perhaps it may not make sense whatsoever. In either case, it's not going to do anybody much good if nobody knows how to use it, or why to use it in the first place. ZenOSmosis is attempting to pre-fill that gap by developing a JavaScript based user interface dubbed the "zenGrid", which handles application layout in an HTML 5-based browser viewport. Harris claims that the zenGrid will mature enough so that creating desktop-grade user interfaces for the browser will be simple for the developer, using really simple markup. Features such as context menus and draggable regions are implemented with a custom CSS-JavaScript layer which forms the zenGrid.
"With the zenGrid, the usability factor increases by several notches. Properly done, the interface resembles that of a desktop application, with a massive server farm handling the logistics of whatever is being run," explains Harris.
At the core of zenOSmosis lies a distributed model virtual file system, currently employing OpenStack technology (which happens to be co-developed by NASA, and backed by Intel, Cisco Dell & HP) to provide petabytes worth of storage to their users. However, zenOSmosis uses a custom metadata and caching key indexes to increase the speed and efficiency of object queries, which improves functionality by offering nested folders, support for file versioning and trash bin restoration, and significantly improves response time, according to the team.
Navigator, the first and foremost utility for zenOSmosis, is a file browser for this virtual file system. It resembles a traditional desktop file utility, and the interface is handled via the zenGrid. A custom push client is being developed to allow the Navigator to auto-sync to the screen if two or more computers are using it at once. The Navigator is based on JavaScript and AJAX.
zenOSmosis, as a web service, doesn't have to reside solely in the web browser as external applications can hook to its API and be employed in any type of medium, as an installed mobile or desktop app, however the team has expressed implicit interest in a web-only environment for their core apps, including the Navigator.
ZenOSmosis is being developed on a UNIX-based architecture, though the team is declining to go into further details regarding the underlying operating platform at this time. Their website can be reached, but a working prototype is not available at this time until Harris believes it is ready for public beta.
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