Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser

Collaborative Map-Reduce In the Browser 188

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:50PM from the suercomputer-on-the-very-cheap dept.

igrigorik writes "The generality and simplicity of Google's Map-Reduce is what makes it such a powerful tool. However, what if instead of using proprietary protocols we could crowd-source the CPU power of millions of users online every day? Javascript is the most widely deployed language — every browser can run it — and we could use it to push the job to the client. Then, all we would need is a browser and an HTTP server to power our self-assembling supercomputer (proof of concept + code). Imagine if all it took to join a compute job was to open a URL."

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Would this work for music? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @04:56PM (#27056241)

You could also use this to index the MP3 files on everybody's hard drives, then share the music just by visiting a URL!! ... oh wait...

Re:Noscript (Score:5, Funny)

by OzPeter ( 195038 ) writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @05:03PM (#27056325)

Sir, I have the '80s on hold on the phone at the moment. They want to know if you want to by some stuff called .. umm .. hang on .. yes here it is .. "static HTML pages" ..

Re:MapReduce fanboyism (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @05:22PM (#27056537)

listen to him everyone, he must know what he's talking about since I don't know what rocket surgery is.

Scripts taking too long (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @05:23PM (#27056553)

Is this why my browser keeps telling me scripts on the slashdot main page are taking too long and do I want to stop them for the last few months?

Re:Link (Score:4, Funny)

by Logic and Reason ( 952833 ) writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @05:48PM (#27056857)

Thank you! I had completely forgotten how to use Google!

Re:Link (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @06:09PM (#27057169)

So had I; here's a link: http://www.google.com [google.com]

Re:Link (Score:3, Funny)

by Tenebrousedge ( 1226584 ) writes: <`moc.liamg' `ta' `egdesuorbenet'> on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @07:10PM (#27057921)

Here, let me google that for you. [lmgtfy.com]

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