This is something that would be possible with the concurrency solution
I was thinking about.  The Erlang methodology for Nodes joining a
group is pretty simplistic, I would would want something more secure
with perhaps more levels of access (e.g. this access level is only
permitted to send these specific messages) with the "handshake" based
on public/private key cryptography.

The rest would have to be built on top of this infrastructure, but I
think this would be a good foundation to start from.

On 10/22/07, 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.
>
> Zulq.
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