Re: More Ming fun.... :)

David Marceau wrote:
> Justin Clift wrote:
<snip>
> You mentioned a TCP connection but I would imagine you hard code for
> your fixed set of ip addresses in your lan.  

Yes, of course.  You'd obviously have to authenticate the incoming 
connections and handle them appropriately (that's a given).

:-)

<snip>
> No matter what language you prefer php or whatever, you probably need an
> infrastructure 
> toolset like the following to help coordinate all your stuff.
> Here is one example:
> CLIC(lots of perl inside from what I read about it)
> http://clic.mandrakesoft.com/index-en.html

Agreed, there's a lot of good toolsets handy for many approaches.  The 
CLIC approach (and the Beowulf) ones are pretty much for dedicated 
machines, whereas I was musing about something similar to say... 
Folding@Home (http://folding.stanford.edu), SETI@Home (don't remember 
the URL offhand), or similar.

The musing I was making here was that we already have millions of 
computers, across many architectures (x86, SPARC, PowerPC, etc), hooked 
up to the net and with a browser+flash installed.  Interesting platform 
concept to work from, as we don't need to install anything extra on the 
PC's, they've already got the main engine installed.


<snip>
> I would imagine if you look around there must be an api for MPI and similar
> infrastructures for php.

Agreed.  I'm thinking more for Flash at the moment as a "start out small 
and see where it leads" type of thing.  And that, being time dependant 
too, so I'm not sure... ;-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift


> Cheers,
> David Marceau
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