Reading Comprehension - Stale software

[shaharhada]

Can one explain me the meaning of the sentence:
From some researchers' perspectives, however, this same reliability translated to old, stale, and immobile software and systems.
In the section of Introduction in the document:
https://www.researchgate.net/public...Scientific_containers_for_mobility_of_compute
What is stale program? Can you give examples?

 

[USAFRet]

Applications that worked, in their specific environment.
But not really upgradeable, or commensurate with a continually evolving landscape of platforms.

ex:
What worked really well on a desktop PC might not easily work on a mobile platform.
Hence, 'stale'.

 

[shaharhada]

More sentence that I don't understand from the text:
In less than a few decades, the early sharing of unreproducible installation of libraries and applications has been extended to a need to share entire operating systems, especially for niche communities wanting to distribute and run UDSS.
What the meaning of unreproducible installation? What examples of this thing we have?

 

[USAFRet]

"a few decades" encompasses the whole computing environment. Things changed and evolved.

Simple example - Being able to share an Excel file between disparate systems and users...Windows, Apple, Linux.

 

[shaharhada]

"a few decades" encompasses the whole computing environment. Things changed and evolved.

Simple example - Being able to share an Excel file between disparate systems and users...Windows, Apple, Linux.

Sorry, but I can't understand. Can you write it in other words, Please.
Thanks you a lot. Thanks about the response.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry, but I can't understand. Can you write it in other words, Please.
Thanks you a lot. Thanks about the response.

Previously, an Excel file could only be opened on a Windows system.
Today, MS Office exists in the Apple world. And open source LibreOffice can open that same Excel file on a Linux platform.

 

[shaharhada]

Previously, an Excel file could only be opened on a Windows system.
Today, MS Office exists in the Apple world. And open source LibreOffice can open that same Excel file on a Linux platform.

Thank, now I understand.

 

[USAFRet]

Or even something as simple as a text file.

On my Linux based NAS, I have a "Food" folder, with several hundred recipies. Mostly text files, with some pdf.
I can trivially open it in a Windows box, or a small android tablet.

 

[shaharhada]

More sentence that I didn't understand:
Another growing initiative of many institutions has been, with careful work to address security and affordability, a movement to using cloud resourses.
What is affordability? Which example of it there is?

 

[USAFRet]

More sentence that I didn't understand:
Another growing initiative of many institutions has been, with careful work to address security and affordability, a movement to using cloud resourses.
What is affordability? Which example of it there is?

Affordability - How do you want to handle the security?
Have paid inhouse employees? Or contract that out to a major company, with a whole security staff?

Might be less expensive to pay someone else to do it.

 

[shaharhada]

More question:
Singularity containers. Here we introduce Singularity, a container solution created by necessity for scientific application driven workloads.
what is driven workloads? What examples we have?

 

[USAFRet]

More question:
Singularity containers. Here we introduce Singularity, a container solution created by necessity for scientific application driven workloads.
what is driven workloads? What examples we have?

You'll have to ask them what that buzzword means.

It seems to be just a label for their platform and application.

 

[shaharhada]

You'll have to ask them what that buzzword means.

It seems to be just a label for their platform and application.

Sorry buy I don't understand. What is label for their platform... and etc.
Please explain it to me

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry buy I don't understand. What is label for their platform... and etc.
Please explain it to me

"Singularity" is just the name they've given to their tool.
Probably meant to invoke thoughts of interoperability across platforms and data usages.

Like "Excel" doesn't really mean anything, it is just the name Microsoft gave to their spreadsheet tool.
Or "LinuxMint"....again, just a name.

 

[shaharhada]

"Singularity" is just the name they've given to their tool.
Probably meant to invoke thoughts of interoperability across platforms and data usages.

Like "Excel" doesn't really mean anything, it is just the name Microsoft gave to their spreadsheet tool.
Or "LinuxMint"....again, just a name.

So Singularity is another name to driven workload?

 

[USAFRet]

So Singularity is another name to driven workload?

No, Singularity is just the name they've given to their project.

They could have used Unity, or TheOne, or BirdFood, or Universe, or whatever...

 

[shaharhada]

No, Singularity is just the name they've given to their project.

They could have used Unity, or TheOne, or BirdFood, or Universe, or whatever...

O.K. what the meaning of workload?
Sorry about my English.

 

[USAFRet]

O.K. what the meaning of workload?
Sorry about my English.

Workload = how much effort and resources does it take to get the result I'm looking for.

For instance - I wish to go buy a few dozen sheets of plywood and bring them home.
My Mini Cooper cannot handle that workload. It is too small. My pickup truck, however, can.

Or...My Asus Transformer laptop can't handle the workload of 3D CAD architecture design. My PC can.

Or - My PC can't handle the workload of 200 simultaneous users, accessing a shared database. My NAS box probably could. I know my servers at work can.

 

[shaharhada]

Workload = how much effort and resources does it take to get the result I'm looking for.

For instance - I wish to go buy a few dozen sheets of plywood and bring them home.
My Mini Cooper cannot handle that workload. It is too small. My pickup truck, however, can.

Or...My Asus Transformer laptop can't handle the workload of 3D CAD architecture design. My PC can.

Or - My PC can't handle the workload of 200 simultaneous users, accessing a shared database. My NAS box probably could. I know my servers at work can.

Thanks