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]

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

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]

In article <ma*************************************@python.or g>, Skip Montanaro wrote:

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?

This may be of interest to you:

http://distributed.net/source/

PterK

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

[Stephan Diehl]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

[...]

2. Are there tools available to make it easier to build such
applications?
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...rpintro-i.html

Maybe this has something usefull for you.

Stephan

Thx,

Skip

[Aahz]

In article <ma*************************************@python.or g>,
Skip Montanaro <sk**@pobox.com> wrote:

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?

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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