Wireless chips embedded into every device could transform an ordinary home into a distributed computing system.
Every new technology wave comes with its own catchphrase: distributed computing, client-server, e-business.
Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?
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That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
But the distributed computing allowed by the revamped power grid could introduce a new economic paradigm - what Mr Rifkin calls "distributed capitalism".
The timing is right now, she says, because the explosion of internet and distributed computing is changing the way companies talk to each other.
It would be more accurate to say that State-sponsored regulation is largely irrelevant because of the inherent design properties of a peer-to-peer distributed computing system.
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Google also innovates in the area of large-scale distributed computing.
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No one foresaw the revolution Distributed Computing would unleash.
However, due to the nature of distributed computing, ongoing transactions between individuals and companies would be technically outside the scope of potential regulatory action as long as there is electricity and internet connectivity.
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In addition, in May 2002, I founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community agreeable to copyright owners, consumers and consumer electronic industries.
For the Nutch project we needed distributed computing technology, we needed to store datasets that were much bigger than we could store on one computer, and we needed to have processes that would run and be coordinated across multiple computers.
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Today, we are increasingly moving towards more distributed forms of computing, including the use of grid and cloud computing infrastructures (also similar to what BU, MIT, Harvard, Northeastern and UMass are doing with the Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center).
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Darfour envisions wearable computing as a distributed facility that picks up signals from gesture and body movement.
To address these questions, a distributed testbed infrastructure was deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) and the National Energy Research Scientifi c Computing Center (NERSC).
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The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems.
Challenges to be overcome include security issues, the complexity of managing multiple distributed systems, and the mistrust that may exist between companies sharing each other's computing resources, Barrett said.
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