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A Simple Grid Computing Synchronization Solution

Posted by Hemos on from the syncing-nicely dept.

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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  1. Feh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Feh

  2. GET SOME PRIORITIES. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The space shuttle has just exploded at 1400 gmt, and your talking about A SIMPLE GRID COMPUTING SYCRONISATION SOLUTION???? Get some fucking priorities.

  3. *sounds of explosion* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And that was the first time a teacher went to space.

  4. TO2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute? Isn't that where the Olsen twins are going?

    You know... I've read that the best cure for a hangover is masturbation.

    1. Re:TO2 by Jynxeh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I really hope not, because I live in Troy, and my dad works at RPI.

      I'd actually heard they were going to be attending Rocehster Institute of Technology, anyway, which is where my boyfriend will most likely be going next year.

      But hey, this is the internet, and random rumours abound. They could be not going at all, or going somewhere entirely different, and chances are, there'd be some rumour that they were going to just about any large university you care to think of.

  5. Slashdot Slashdotted by Nasa Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The nasa story is giving very intermittant access. 12pm est Slashdot is straining under the load . Cannot access detailed pages for that story