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The @home projects? I assume enough of their source is open, only because of how happy people are with it.

• gruseom 15y ago
  My question is about using BitTorrent for distributed computing. Do any of the @home projects use BitTorrent? Underlying this is a desire for ad hoc computation, where the calculations to be performed don't have to be decided in advance. (Presumably this is also what Carmack means by "computation of opportunity".) You can't do this if you have to collect the data first. But if you know where the data already is, you can send the computations to it. It seems like the BitTorrent protocol would help here.
  • zitterbewegung 15y ago
    Wouldn't it be better to split up the datafiles for each node? Unless do you need a copy of the whole dataset?
    • gruseom 15y ago
      I'm guessing my other comments in the thread address this. If not, can you explain further?