A Simple Grid Computing Synchronization Solution

atari_kid writes "NewScientist.com is running a article about a simple solution to the synchronization problems involved in distributed computing. Gyorgy Korniss and his colleagues at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute proposed that each computer in a grid synchronize by occasionally checking with a randomly chosen computer in the network instead of centralizing the grid by having a global supervisor."

The computer equavalent of...

[rmarll]

Hey buddy, you got any change?

Re:the details are scant, but this sounds like....

[Sgs-Cruz]

My mother always said, "be careful, son, it's an algorithm-eat-algorithm world out there... Each node will always try to take whatever it can get... you must be sure to always maintain a fair share for yourself of the grid computing resources."

Yup, good old mom. How right she was. Nowadays, we've got travesties like the Selfish Gene [amazon.com] kicking around the gay gene [theonion.com] (the second one down.)

:) -- cruz