On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:48 PM, steve uurtamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The networking issue is somewhat more serious. > Not the actual network delay, but the mechanism > that the boinc client software uses to process work requests > and the interval at which people typically send > back their results is such that you'd be unlikely to > get a single work request back until after you needed > it.
This makes the assumption that boinc is used, or at least that one central server is used. I've thought a lot about this issue, and I think one central server would be too inefficient. I would use a distributed network, and let each computer just connect with a small number of others, creating something more like a web than a tree. This could be optimized for ping time as well--arrange the nodes in the web so that they talk most with those close to them. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
