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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something like Progeny's NOW and all of these assorted hacks at building a distributed computing system will be superseded.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. Time warp? by Pedrito · · Score: 1, Troll

    Most new hires came in to work on projects that had the potential to bring in revenue sooner than NOW...

    Um, maybe it's me, but how could it be sooner than now? If these guys have a working time machine, maybe they ought to try to capitalize on that instead of writing an OS.

  2. Interesting distributed computing by PhysicsGenius · · Score: 1, Troll
    There is a paper due out in Science next week that presents a mathematical model of the universe as a distributed computation. The properties of the various masses (velocities, sizes, angular momenta, etc) can be considered to be the results of computations carried out by the interactions between them.

    Of course, computation in a vacuum (ha ha) is useless. Information on the results of the computations is carried around via cosmic rays, neutrinos and the like.

    The really exciting thing is that the conclusion of the paper calls for research into the general direction that cosmic rays are flowing which may lead us right to the location of God Himself!

  3. Re:FP - 0wneD by forged · · Score: 0, Troll
    Woah... L33tspeak.

    Are we supposed to be impressed.

    -f

  4. And then... by Old+Wolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    And then, someone (perhaps an Episode I actress) will, while eating a hot Canadian breakfast dish, make a Beowulf cluster of them..