Re: [ba-unrev-talk] ExtremWeb -- p2p grid computing
In the book, Information Retrieval by Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier
Ribiero-Neto there is mention of a system called Harvest that uses a
distributed indexing approach to the Web.
I haven't searched for any more info yet though. (01)
Cheers,
Peter (02)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Park" <jackpark@thinkalong.com>
To: <ba-unrev-talk@bootstrap.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:05 PM
Subject: [ba-unrev-talk] ExtremWeb -- p2p grid computing (03)
> http://www.lri.fr/~fedak/XtremWeb/introduction.php3
>
> Open source grid computing.
>
> I mention this here because I am possessed with notions of finding a way
to
> index, ontologize, and yadayadayada..the entire Web, at least those
> portions of interest to me and to others who want to play in the same
sandbox.
>
> Yup. I know the drill..."Can't be done." "Not worth the effort." "Get a
> life!" and so forth.
>
> So what!
>
> Imagine a way to share cpu cycles from idle machines all over the world,
> doing keyword searches, then using greenstone to mirror, index, and
> ontologize the sites found.
>
> Go figure...
> Jack
>
> (04)