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SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was the first popular distributed computing scheme, letting "just anyone" help do the massive crunching of data to help solve a big problem. Pretty cool, but these days the idea has been greatly expanded. The mission of the World Community Grid is to tackle other big data projects that benefit humanity, such as helping to cure Muscular Dystrophy and cancer. You load a piece of software on your computer and register it. The WCG then feeds out some data that needs processing to your computer, which works on the problem when it would otherwise be idle (for example: do you leave your computer on all day -- or all night?) Maybe your computer will be the one that finds a breakthrough that defeats AIDS. Cooooooooool. From This is True for 25 March 2007 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Jason Sanders, Edward Kandrot Amazon Price: $32.57 Customer Review: Very well written, the authors (who are on the CUDA design team) seem to understand what people find confusing about GPU programming and take great pains to go slowly and explain things. Some other reviewers claim that the book is out of date at publ...  by Tom White Amazon Price: $29.69 Customer Review: I really enjoyed the book. It has everything you need to: a) Get started running your own cluster and writing your own MR jobs b) Understand how to administer the cluster c) Troubleshoot your programs d) Learn about really im...  by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch, Joseph Bowbeer, David Holmes, Doug Lea Amazon Price: $37.79 Customer Review: After just the first couple of chapters I was able to fix several major bugs in my multithreaded applications. I have a number of Java certifications, but I would never have known about classes like AtomicInteger and AtomicReference without reading ...  by David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu Amazon Price: $46.27 Customer Review: i bought this book because i was short on time, i needed to learn CUDA quickly and efficiently, and on that the book delivered perfectly, but now after some experience with CUDA i can see that this book has nothing that u cant get online for free, if...  by George Reese Amazon Price: $19.79 Customer Review: Overall this book was a great overview of cloud computing. It would be great to see a new addition or online addendum that is less Amazon-centric and provides more information regarding other players. However, this is a great reference whether you ar... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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