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A Simple Grid Computing Synchronization Solution
atari_kid writes "NewScientist.com is running a article about a simple solution to the synchronization problems involved in distributed computing. Gyorgy Korniss and his colleagues at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute proposed that each computer in a grid synchronize by occasionally checking with a randomly chosen computer in the network instead of centralizing the grid by having a global supervisor."
> If I understand this correctly,
Which you don't!
> wouldn't it contain the potential for the computers to become very desynchronized.
No it bloody doesn't unless configured incorrectly... sheesh, think about it.
> What I mean is that, since each computer may become slightly off from all the others on its own, if each computer synchronizes to another random computer in the group, couldn't some of the computers become massively off?
?? wah? no no no, because they update frequently enough so that the average hops from each random update converges to a nice figure which means that all nodes are nicely , erm massively, in synch.
Get it now? or you wanna procrastinate, ad hoc, ad nauseum.
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