Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 13:22:44 -0700 From: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CPU@home - does free distributed computing exist? Message-ID: <26face530805241322n64f97cacqf06a716b68fec292@mail.gmail.com>
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There are several projects (like SETI@home, Einstein@home, folding@home, etc) that let you donate spare CPU power to a specific cause. Is there a project that lets you donate spare CPU power to anyone who needs it? That is, a pool of CPU power that anyone can tap into for free to run computations that would otherwise take forever? I realize it's dangerous to let people run random commands on your system, so this would be limited to pure mathematical functions or something like that (no disk/network access), w/ donator-specified limits on memory/etc. I also realize calling functions over the network is 2 orders of magnitude slower than calling them in memory, so this would only be useful if you could distribute a large number of CPU-intensive parallel function calls. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile.
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