Here is another evolution-like wisdom of crowds system, called Picbreeder. It is an Interactive Evolutionary Computing (IEC) system, where users choose the images that they like to spawn the next generation. When the user is satisfied with the image, he or she publishes it to the site. Then, any other user can continue to evolve the image. Many of the images, after passing through a few hundred generations, and a dozen or so users' hands, end up looking like real things (e.g. faces, cars, animals).
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I submitted this page a few months ago and it
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Some preliminary performance results
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Mini-ITX Clustering
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· Score: 5, Informative
We studied 3 mini beowulf systems a while back, here at University of Central Florida, one of which was a mini-ITX beowulf. Here's some info and preliminary results:
http://helios.engr.ucf.edu/beowulf/miniature.phtml
I had previously been thinking of something similar for poor country sides to have Internet access. I seem to recall a project a while back about making a simple, cheap PC to distribute throughout rural India. It sounds like Internet connections are less common there and expensive to install. But if you also distribute WAPs along with these simple PCs, perhaps you can setup effective connections based on both relaying to more urban areas and P2P technology, i.e. if the machine could relay to a connection, it would, but otherwise it could try to retrieve pertinent information from nearby PCs. This way you could still encourage the spread of data without too many internet connections.
A few weeks back I submitted an article about some mini-clusters we made at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. Here's a link:
http://helios.engr.ucf.edu/beowulf/miniature.phtml "
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Here is another evolution-like wisdom of crowds system, called Picbreeder. It is an Interactive Evolutionary Computing (IEC) system, where users choose the images that they like to spawn the next generation. When the user is satisfied with the image, he or she publishes it to the site. Then, any other user can continue to evolve the image. Many of the images, after passing through a few hundred generations, and a dozen or so users' hands, end up looking like real things (e.g. faces, cars, animals).
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Thanks for your appreciation. :)
We're all just trying to increase our cool factor.
I submitted this page a few months ago and it
got rejected. Not sure why.
We studied 3 mini beowulf systems a while back, here at University of Central Florida, one of which was a mini-ITX beowulf. Here's some info and preliminary results: http://helios.engr.ucf.edu/beowulf/miniature.phtml
I had previously been thinking of something similar for poor country sides to have Internet access. I seem to recall a project a while back about making a simple, cheap PC to distribute throughout rural India. It sounds like Internet connections are less common there and expensive to install. But if you also distribute WAPs along with these simple PCs, perhaps you can setup effective connections based on both relaying to more urban areas and P2P technology, i.e. if the machine could relay to a connection, it would, but otherwise it could try to retrieve pertinent information from nearby PCs. This way you could still encourage the spread of data without too many internet connections.
A few weeks back I submitted an article about some mini-clusters we made at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida. Here's a link: http://helios.engr.ucf.edu/beowulf/miniature.phtml "