On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:52 PM, John G. Rose wrote:
For some lucky cable folks the BW is getting ready to increase soon:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071130-docsis-3-0-possible-100mbps-sp
eeds-coming-to-some-comcast-users-in-2008.html
I'm yet to fully understand the limitations of a P2P based AGI
design or the
augmentational ability of a public P2P network on a private P2P
network
constructed for AGI. I would count out P2P AGI so quickly.
Distributed algorithms tend to be far more sensitivity to latency than
bandwidth, except to the extent that low bandwidth induces latency.
As a practical matter, the latency floor of P2P is so high that most
algorithms would run far faster on a small number of local machines
than a large number of geographically distributed machines.
There is a reason people interested in high-performance computing tend
to spend more on their interconnect than their compute nodes.
J. Andrew Rogers
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