I have been studying REST and distributed computing in preparation for building a large system using the Amazon Web Services (AWS.)
The REST mailing list recently cited a blog that summarized the literature on distributed computing. The blog is a great short read. A computing topic with key papers titled, "The Byzantine Generals Problem" and "The Part Time Parliament" promises to be intriguing. <conclusion> Paxos, Paxos Commit and HTTP/REST have been combined to build a highly available co-allocation system for Grid computing, details of which can be found here HARC, there are also more references in this paper: "Co-Allocation, Fault Tolerance and Grid Computing" (2006). </conclusion> There are obvious analogies here to political problems. Analogies that also pertain to the difficulties of making agreements of all kinds between parties that do not (cannot) trust each other, i.e. why deals are hard. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
