Internet-scale distributed computing?

[Peter van Kampen]

In article <mailman.182.1077835454.8594.python-list at python.org>, 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 at Home, Folding at 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 at Home or Folding at 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
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