On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stephen Scheck wrote:
> You missed one of my main points - I want to do this so
> I can gain knowledge by dealing with the various issues
> that a project such as this could entail. E.g. writing
> threaded, multi-client handling socket code, with all the
> associated data structures and support code, designing
> the client/server protocol, etc. I haven't done a large
> project like that before, and doing this would expose
> me to a lot of the areas that I want to gain expertise
> it.
>
> I just think MP3 would happen to be a very cool payload. I
> could do a distributed client/server system for anything -
> distributed huffman encoding, or even matrix operations
> on random data that I don't even care about. But if I can
> make it work w/ MP3 encoding, why not?
>
Stephen, are you aware of the PVM (portable virtual machine) project?
I guess it supports win and mac, unix, and certainly other platforms.
It might make a good starting point. I would love to see distributed
encoding; I have 7 computers networked at home, largely idle, but not
particularly fast. I do have fast internet connectivity, I can send
a song (50Meg) across town in 12 minutes and have my friend encode it
on his athlon, and almost get it back, before my p120 finishes it. :-)
---ben
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