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Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser
igrigorik writes "The generality and simplicity of Google's Map-Reduce is what makes it such a powerful tool. However, what if instead of using proprietary protocols we could crowd-source the CPU power of millions of users online every day? Javascript is the most widely deployed language — every browser can run it — and we could use it to push the job to the client. Then, all we would need is a browser and an HTTP server to power our self-assembling supercomputer (proof of concept + code). Imagine if all it took to join a compute job was to open a URL."
You could also use this to index the MP3 files on everybody's hard drives, then share the music just by visiting a URL!! ... oh wait...
Sir, I have the '80s on hold on the phone at the moment. They want to know if you want to by some stuff called .. umm .. hang on .. yes here it is .. "static HTML pages" ..
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
listen to him everyone, he must know what he's talking about since I don't know what rocket surgery is.
Is this why my browser keeps telling me scripts on the slashdot main page are taking too long and do I want to stop them for the last few months?
Thank you! I had completely forgotten how to use Google!
So had I; here's a link: http://www.google.com
Here, let me google that for you.
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