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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something like Progeny's NOW and all of these assorted hacks at building a distributed computing system will be superseded.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. Re:We could spend millions to do this.. by Voyager+Sucks+Ass · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, or a distributed method of informing people that Star Trek Voyager is quite possibly the shittiest piece of shit to ever shit out of Paramount.

    I'd like to see that.

  2. 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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