Combined home computers reach exaflop levels
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delwhjr wrote:
Folding@home and Roseta@Home are very well known and respected distributed computer systems. They are very powerful and have more computing capability than many of the supercomputers around. Distributed computing is scalable,allowing it to change easily for the task. Supercomputers, once built, are very difficult to reconfigure. I have participated in some distributed computer projects and the benefits to research are tremendous.
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are an example of distributed computing(cloud computing).
You seem to understand this. How do they administer such a program and assign x numbers of computers a task? Do they take a complex problem and divide it into little pieces? How do they implement this scalable method? I totally see why people have a hard time believing that thousands of little computers could outdo a supercomputer, or in this instance, 20 times more powerful.
