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."

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The computer equavalent of...

[rmarll]

Hey buddy, you got any change?

Re:the details are scant, but this sounds like....

[Sgs-Cruz]

My mother always said, "be careful, son, it's an algorithm-eat-algorithm world out there... Each node will always try to take whatever it can get... you must be sure to always maintain a fair share for yourself of the grid computing resources."

Yup, good old mom. How right she was. Nowadays, we've got travesties like the Selfish Gene kicking around the gay gene (the second one down.)

:) -- cruz