While you're on the subject of distributed processing..... A very worthwhile grid processing project is United Devices Cancer Project. If you install the UD Agent on your PC it trundles away in your idle time, grabs information from their server and your PC starts helping in the search for a cure for cancer.... You can find out more and download it from here : http://members.ud.com/download/gold/
There are a couple of ColdFusion teams, one being the UK CFUG team... Feel free to join.... http://members.ud.com/services/teams/team.htm?id=7C6545AC-461D-479B-9FEA-0AA 7E0DA0BBA Regards Stephen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Childress" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:27 PM Subject: RE: Grid computing > Breaking up a large computing problem into small chunks and distributing it > to a large number of processors/machines. Sometimes these machines are in > geographically diverse locations. Sometimes the machines have other > "primary roles", and compute the problem in the background. > > Examples: > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu > http://www.distributed.net > > Some people theorize that given enough participants, CPU time will > eventually be globally bought or sold as a commodity. For example, if NASA > wants to calculate some huge "galaxy scale" problem, they might buy 1mil > "CPU hours" from an organization who manages a huge network of grid > computers which have the ability to crunch the problem in record time. > These orgs exist today, but not on the scales needed to make it a real > globally tradable commodity. > > One of the problems with programs that use desktop resources like Seti@Home > and Distributed.net is that you are trusting unknown people's computers to > solve problems, and NASA might not want that. Right now there are private > grid networks being set up, and already set up with trusted resources to > solve these types of problems. > > http://www-1.ibm.com/grid > > -Cameron > > ----------------- > Cameron Childress > Sumo Consulting Inc. > --- > cell: 678-637-5072 > aim: cameroncf > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 10:14 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Grid computing > > > > > > What is it? > > > > It's supposedly the "wave of the future" for those of us in IT > > according to sys-con's developer's poll. > > > > From what I have gathered from google, it's a way of setting up > > machines to talk to one another and share resources. > > > > Anyone know anything about it? It's got me curious.. > > > > Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer > > The Children's Medical Center > > One Children's Plaza > > Dayton, OH 45404 > > 937-641-4293 > > http://www.childrensdayton.org > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
