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Swarm — a New Approach To Distributed Computation

Posted by timothy on from the or-old-approach-to dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, has been working on a new open source project called Swarm. The concept is to allow a computer program to be distributed across multiple computers in a manner almost completely transparent to the programmer. The system observes the program executing and figures out how the workload should be distributed for maximum efficiency. Swarm is implemented in Scala. Its at an early-prototype stage, and Ian has created a good 36 minute video explaining the concept and the current implementation."

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  1. Re:This'll be great for botnets by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure you would notice an apparently suspicious huge JVM process eating your CPU time. :]

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  2. Obligatory by arcsimm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of... err. Oh.

  3. We have just witnessed the birth of a new meme... by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Ian Clarke's Swarm, World "Hellos" you!

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  4. Re:This'll be great for botnets by Linker3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, I already use OpenOffice!

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  5. Alpha code... by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Computer 1: MOV AL...what? No more? MOV AL what? I need a value! WTF am I supposed to do with that!?

    Computer 2: 09? Nine? Who gave me nine on its own. That doesn't make any sense! Jeez! Hey, anyone out there missing some data?

    Computer 3: Not me, I'm pushing the registers onto the stack

    Computer 4: Nope, I've got an INT

    Computer 5: Oh, hey, it could be me - does NOP have a value. No? Sorry, my bad!

    Computer 1: Nine - yeah, nine - Well, I could stick that in AL if no-one else wants it!?

    Computer 3: Oh, heck, give it to 1. I've just got a POP instruction so I am going to obliterate it anyway.....

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