Re: Distributed networks?

[Dirk Terrell <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:10:09 -0700 (PDT), Robert J. Bradbury wrote:

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>Something that might work to our advantage...

I've done some work with distributed systems, having done the OS/2
version of SETI@Home and written one from scratch using Java and
Fortran to do solar system dynamics simulations. That approach works
well with problems that are CPU bound (i.e. small data files but lots
of crunching on them). It's less obvious how well it would work for
something like TASS which would have to push large amounts of data
around. Asymmetric connections like the DSL and cable that most people
have would be ok (since downloads would be large and uploads much
smaller), but Tom would need some serious bandwidth on his end to keep
all of the clients fed.

Dirk