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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. BUT??? BUT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    1: You dont understand it correctly
    2: 'massively off' ?
    3: Oh you know everything don't you

    Every random synch would be a degree of hops from the master node, THE KEY WORD is SIMPLE, it isn't bloody rocket science, and you don't even get it.

    By randomly updating, the net effect is a smooth, disassociated update which uses a temporal variable to maintain a degree of acceptable degredation within the system to ensure that all nodes have enough updates.

    TADA BLUDDY DA.

    Fuck /.