Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 3, 2009 @08:50AM 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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Another article published by.... by Anthony_Cargile · 2009-03-03 09:06 · Score: 0, Troll

KDawson! No, its not the typical KD FUD, but still - we all could continue to thrive without seeing some "proof of concept" bullshit as useless as this. Remind me again how he is still an editor? I mean, this is unbelievable! I stared at the headline and summary for a second, and then it dawned on me - I knew who posted this before even looking under the title, and that is just pitiful.