http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660This comment is tangential to the original post, which got me thinking about distributed caching... I really enjoyed a talk by Cameron Purdy on distributed caching that I heard a couple years ago. It was very detailed with virtually no "product plugging". I couldn't find the original, but it looks like he did a similar one recently: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/distributed-caching-lessons. It's more about caching / performance than grid computing / spaces, but they seem pretty similar to me. Thought you'd find it interesting if you hadn't already seen it. Side question: Does anyone care to comment on how they use the 2nd level cache in NHibernate? Is anyone using the memcached cache provider for NHibernate? What about the Bamboo cache provider? I've never had to do anything distributed (and I generally avoid it) but I wish I had a better grasp of the concepts and available tools so I could know when I could use them. memcached is the only o/s implementation I've heard of, but I've never been able to find much documentation on it, nor have I heard any .NET developers talk about using it, or "spaces". I'll be interested to see if you take your thought experiment any further. http://ayende.com/2368/building-a-space-to-grow#comment3http://ayende.com/2368/building-a-space-to-grow#comment3Mon, 07 May 2007 20:32:31 GMTIt is local only. http://ayende.com/2368/building-a-space-to-grow#comment1http://ayende.com/2368/building-a-space-to-grow#comment1Sun, 06 May 2007 05:09:16 GMT