On 22/10/2007, Zulq Alam <me at zulq.net> wrote:
> I've been reading some of the many posts on concurrency and multi-core
> processors. As always, a very interesting discussion.
>
> It got me thinking it would be cool if there was a generic Squeak
> compute farm which you could utilize from any Squeak image. Just write
> some code in a map/reduce fashion and send some jobs to the farm.
>
> Perhaps running in spare cycles on the desktop and or dedicated servers.
> Although I'm not sure how the latter could be funded.
>
> We'd need to work out how to manage the code, job scheduling, security,
> etc.  I doubt it would be easy but it may be very rewarding. Perhaps
> someone has looked at something like this already?
>
> It feels like there's an interesting idea in there somewhere. A language
> extension that gives everyone access to a super computer.
>
> I understand that if everyone is using the same super computer, it
> ceases to be super but i doubt this would be the case.
>
> Let me know what you think.
>

I think things which you proposing are just a distributed computing challenge.
If we could have a good distributed computing farm, there will be no
need in having a super-computer. A thousands(millions) of desktop PCs
can easily overcome a computing power of any super-computer known in
the world.

In my turn, i propose other idea: how about that each of us installing
a package for distributed computing and sharing own PC's computing
power. Then the BIG corporations will come and rent our computing
power :)

> Zulq.
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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.