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NETI@Home to Examine Net's Strengths

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the optimize-this dept.

UnresolvedExternal writes "Wired is reporting about Georgia Tech researchers who want thousands of computer users to install their program to help them monitor traffic patterns on the Internet. They plan to use the data to strengthen the Net and unblock bottlenecks."

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  1. Re:I don't think so... by lambent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Different people value things differently.

    For example, a concerted effort to improve the quality of the net infrastructure could lead to more efficient distributed computing platforms, which means that eventually someone would write an improved folding program.

    It's akin to an old computer science problem ... you can start a heavily computational algorithm now, and waste your time, or wait a few years for computers to be many times faster, and then do the parts of the calculation that you put off in a fraction of the time. Or wait a little longer ...

    So, some people do the work now, and others work to improve the systems we use to do work. Seems worthwhile to me.

    Personally, I run chessbrain.