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Scientific American Article: Internet-Spanning OS

Posted by timothy on from the everyone-hold-hands dept.

Hell O'World writes: "Interesting article on Scientific American outlining what they call an Internet-scale operating system (ISOS). 'The Internet-resource paradigm can increase the bounds of what is possible (such as higher speeds or larger data sets) for some applications, whereas for others it can lower the cost.'"

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  1. Internet Spamming OS? by Galvatron · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That's what I thought it said until the 3rd readthrough. Interestingly, the description holds either way.

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  2. Sounds Like Freenet II by Cheshire+Cat · · Score: 1, Redundant
    In the 1999 paper"A Distributed Decentralized Information Storage and Retrieval System" which formed the basis for the Freenet project, the following future direction is suggested:
    Generalisation of Adaptive Network for data processing
    A longer term and more ambitious goal would be to determine whether a distributed decentralised data processing system could be constructed using the information distribution Adaptive Network [Freenet] as a starting point. Such a development would allow the creation of a complete distributed decentralised computer

    Guess there is nothing new under the sun.

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