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Distributed computing is decentralised and parallel computing, using two or more computers communicating over a network to accomplish a common objective or task. The types of hardware, programming languages, operating systems and other resources may vary drastically. It is similar to computer clustering with the main difference being a wide geographic dispersion of the resources.
Organization
Organizing the interaction between each computer is of prime importance. In order to be able to use the widest possible range and types of computers, the protocol or communication channel should not contain or use any information that may not be understood by certain machines. Special care must also be taken that messages are indeed delivered correctly and that invalid messages are rejected which would otherwise bring down the system and perhaps the rest of the network.
Another important factor is the ability to send software to another computer in a portable way so that it may execute and interact with the existing network. This may not always be possible or practical when using differing hardware and resources, in which case other methods must be used such as cross-compiling or manually porting this software.
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It was good to have met Butler Lampson whose papers I studied in distributed computing on my school days. Very reserved but intelligent man
ProfMatsuoka (Satoshi Matsuoka æ¾å²¡ ) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:01:46 -0000
It was good to have met Butler Lampson whose papers I studied in distributed computing on my school days. Very reserved but intelligent man
A note on distributed computing: http://arm.in/7Ej
pragmatrix (Armin S.) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:55:41 -0000
A note on distributed computing: http://arm.in/7Ej
Facebook users spend 8 billion min/day on it. Just think of the computing power available to a distributed Javascript password cracker. Hm..
AdamTReineke (Adam Reineke) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:37:27 -0000
Facebook users spend 8 billion min/day on it. Just think of the computing power available to a distributed Javascript password cracker. Hm..
i want to get onto a Distributed Computing system but can't decide which one. I did Folding@home on Windows pc until Windows decide to crash
BIOSShadow (Jacob Kuehndorf) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:44:14 -0000
i want to get onto a Distributed Computing system but can't decide which one. I did Folding@home on Windows pc until Windows decide to crash
Trying to figure out what Distributed computing project to contribute to. Currently on F at H. Maybe Einstein at Home or SETI at Home.
Tonyx35 (Tony Marcelino) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:05:23 -0000
Trying to figure out what Distributed computing project to contribute to. Currently on F at H. Maybe Einstein at Home or SETI at Home.
Donate your spare CPU power for distributed computing projects http://tr.im/vwW0 :-)
fine5757dude (Dude D. Fine) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:17:52 -0000
Donate your spare CPU power for distributed computing projects http://tr.im/vwW0 :-)
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) - A software platform for distributed computing using volunteer computer resources.
Meta Description: [ BOINC is an open-source software platform for computing using volunteered resources ]
BoincView - An addon for BOINC. Under Windows all BOINC Clients in a network can be supervised and partly remote controlled.
Meta Description: [ The BoincView blog. ]
boincwapstats - Web page of an Open Source PHP script that generates signature images out of BOINC statistics. Easy to set up and also easy to run.
Meta Description: [ A PHP script that provides dynamic stats data from BOINC projects and allows you to create a signatue image. ]
DotGNU Project - A Free Software competitor to Microsoft's .NET
FIPA - The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents is a non-profit organisation producing standards for the interoperation of heterogeneous software agents.
Meta Description: [ FIPA is an international non-profit association of companies promoting intelligent agents by developing specifications and supporting interoperability among agents and agent-based applications. ]
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FIPA-OS - A software agent framework, which implements the specifications of the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents. (Java)
Linux Virtual Server - The Linux Virtual Server is a highly scalable and highly available server built on a cluster of real servers, with the load balancer running on the Linux operating system. The architecture of the server cluster is fully transparent to end users, and the users interact as if it were a single high-performance virtual server. It is under GPL licence.
Meta Description: [ The Linux Virtual Server web site ]
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Morphis - A wireless content transcoder that enables developers to easily create applications that reach all wireless devices. (Java)
Meta Description: [ Open Source Java Wireless Content Transcoder ]
Ncat - Makes it easy to pipe data between hosts. The syntax is similar to cat, but allows tcp streams to be specified in addition to regular files. (C) [GNU/Linux, Unix]
OpenMosix - OpenMosix is the free fork from MOSIX after this great project closed the user area tools to a closed-source licence. All OpenMosix is under GPL licence.
Meta Description: [ openMosix home page, openMosix is an Open Source Linux Cluster Project. ]
OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) - The OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is an set of distributed computing technologies under LGPL, promoted and developed by The Open Group.
Meta Description: [ The Open Group holds the UNIX trademark
in trust for the industry, and manages the UNIX trademark licensing program. ]
Paul's Unofficial BOINC Documentation Site - Summarizes current information about BOINC projects and usage.
SDSC Matrix Project - Offers workflow protocols and workflow language descriptions necessary to build a peer-to- peer infrastructure.
Xfiles - An interactive utility for comparing and merging one file tree with another over a network. (Java)
ZooLib - A library allowing to create native executable for GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OS, BeOS and Windows with little or no need for platform-specific code. (C++)
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