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Introduction to Distributed Computing

Posted by michael on from the help-in-imagining-a-beowulf-cluster dept.

dosten writes "ExtremeTech has a nice intro article on distributed and grid computing." Someday someone will successfully implement something like Progeny's NOW and all of these assorted hacks at building a distributed computing system will be superseded.

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  1. hrmph. by Em+Emalb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Distributed computing. Bah, back in my day, distributed "computing" meant looking over your neighbors' paper and taking their answer.

    What the hell happened to kick the can? Running with a loop?

    You poor poor bastards and your "distributed" crap.

    BAH!

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