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Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser

Posted by kdawson on from the suercomputer-on-the-very-cheap dept.

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."

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  1. Noscript by sakdoctor · · Score: 4, Informative

    Progress is running less JavaScript, not more.

  2. Link by Jamamala · · Score: 5, Informative

    for those like myself that had no idea what MapReduce was:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce