Saul Caganoff wrote:
and here's a couple more ideas:
http://www.google.com/search?q=distributed+computing+javascript+browser
To take a significant amount of CPU time from a user, especially in the
background, it will be necessary to ask for opt-in. Publishing
JavaScript to run as a side effect of various web pages probably won't
please some people too much, especially if it is a project they don't
care about or even dislike.. say, computing prime numbers for Allah...
when the website was apparently a dating site.
If there was a clear indication on the page on why and how to enable it,
and the calculation was somehow aligned with the page, then that maybe
it would catch on.. People would browse on and off different pages, so
of course the calculations (or agents) would need to be able to migrate
quickly and/or be small. Advantage of just installing an app based on
something like BOINC would be that computations could be longer-lived.
Marcus
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