✎ distributed_computing [the libarynth]

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===== distributed systems =====
a [[computer science]] topic (mostly...)

==== reading ====
"Applying Mobile Code to Distributed Systems" > http://www.crema.unimi.it/mirror/scheme/thesis/

**The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing**

Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful learning experiences.

- The network is reliable
  - Latency is zero
  - Bandwidth is infinite
  - The network is secure
  - Topology doesn't change
  - There is one administrator
  - Transport cost is zero
  - The network is homogeneous

-- Peter Deutsch

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"A Note on Distributed Computing" > http://research.sun.com/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf

We argue that objects that interact in a distributed system need to be dealt with in ways that are
intrinsically different from objects that interact in a single address space. These differences are
required because distributed systems require that the programmer be aware of latency, have a dif-
ferent model of memory access, and take into account issues of concurrency and partial failure.

==== soft ====
  * programming [[Erlang]] or [[Mozart Oz]]
  * ftsh, the fault tolerant shell -> http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/ftsh/

==== human driven ====
  * see [[crowdsourcing]]
  *

==== not-so-idle cycles ====
  * "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing"   http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

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