Internet-scale distributed computing?

[Skip Montanaro]

Failing to find any obvious references with some googling, I turn to the
Python folks who have lots of information about lots of different
application domains.

I'm sure many of you are aware of SETI@Home, Folding@Home and Google
Compute, all tools to tackle certain large computational problems on an
Internet scale, typically by soaking up unused cycles on otherwise idle
computers. A bit of googling didn't turn up any others, so I'm wondering:

1. Are there other active projects similar to SETI@Home or Folding@Home?

2. Are there tools available to make it easier to build such
applications?

Thx,

Skip

[Paul McGuire]

Re: Internet-scale distributed computing?

> 1. Are there other active projects similar to SETI@Home or
Folding@Home?[color=blue]
>[/color]
Here are some other projects: (found at
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/l...ink_other_proj)

PiHex: A Distributed Project to Calculate Pi. Calculate the five trillionth
and forty trillionth bits of Pi.
Distributed.net . Crack encryption schemes.
GIMPS: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search. Find prime numbers of the
form 2^p-1.
PVM/POV-Ray Compute ray-traced images.
Golem@Home. Evolve robotic life forms.

[Peter van Kampen]

Re: Internet-scale distributed computing?

In article <mailman.182.10 77835454.8594.p ython-list@python.org >, Skip Montanaro wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Failing to find any obvious references with some googling, I turn to the
> Python folks who have lots of information about lots of different
> application domains.
>
> I'm sure many of you are aware of SETI@Home, Folding@Home and Google
> Compute, all tools to tackle certain large computational problems on an
> Internet scale, typically by soaking up unused cycles on otherwise idle
> computers. A bit of googling didn't turn up any others, so I'm wondering:
>
> 1. Are there other active projects similar to SETI@Home or Folding@Home?
>
> 2. Are there tools available to make it easier to build such
> applications?[/color]

This may be of interest to you:

http://distributed.net/source/

PterK

--
Peter van Kampen
pterk -- at -- datatailors.com

[Stephan Diehl]

Re: Internet-scale distributed computing?

Skip Montanaro wrote:

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> 2. Are there tools available to make it easier to build such
> applications?[/color]

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/gr-dw-grpintro-i.html

Maybe this has something usefull for you.

Stephan
[color=blue]
>
> Thx,
>
> Skip[/color]

[Aahz]

Re: Internet-scale distributed computing?

In article <mailman.182.10 77835454.8594.p ython-list@python.org >,
Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com > wrote:[color=blue]
>
>Failing to find any obvious references with some googling, I turn to the
>Python folks who have lots of information about lots of different
>application domains.
>
>I'm sure many of you are aware of SETI@Home, Folding@Home and Google
>Compute, all tools to tackle certain large computational problems on an
>Internet scale, typically by soaking up unused cycles on otherwise idle
>computers. A bit of googling didn't turn up any others, so I'm wondering:
>
> 1. Are there other active projects similar to SETI@Home or Folding@Home?
>
> 2. Are there tools available to make it easier to build such
> applications?[/color]

It's not clear whether you're trying to place this in a specifically
Python context. If yes, I don't know much, but I'd recommend looking at
Spread.

http://www.python.org/other/spread/

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