"Will Write distributed Applications in Perl for Free"

[Joel Meulenberg]

When I took that class I did a "Java Applet Tracking System" that kept
track of how applets were being used (how much time spent in them, how
often, by which distinct users, etc.).  All you had to do was subclass
our special tracked applet class rather than the usual Applet class and
you got all this bonus tracking functionality that messaged a tracking
server, kept track of all this stuff, etc.

If I had to do it again, I'd probably be interesting in doing stuff
similar to www.mojonation.com or Freenet or distributed.net or, wait!,
I've got it!, could you please fix the scalability problems in
Gnutella?  : )

Anyway, that's a pretty cool class as I recall.  I had Carl Erickson
for that class and he did a great job with it.

If I think of anything else, I'll be sure to blurt it out...

+Joel

--- matthew_heusser at mcgraw-hill.com wrote:
> 
> 
>      ... Well, allmost.
> 
>     Next semester, I will be taking Distributed Computing at GVSU,
> which
> is traditionally a project course.  As such, I am looking for a
> truely
> distributed
> application to write, support, document, extend, etc.  (A cgi script
> that
> updates
> a database probably won't cut it.  But I'm going to talk to the
> professor ...)
> 
>     My current ideas include a massively parrell program to calculate
> physics
> problems
> or to calculate fractal images.  I don't think writing  a distributed
> denial of
> service
> program would be a good idea, unless someone else wanted to write a
> anti-DDS
> system and have the two fight it out ...
> 
>    Perferably, I'd like to use Sockets in multiple environments under
> multiple
> systems, but pipes and shared memory are a possibility.
> 
>    Other ideas?  Does anybody have a MACH system or parellel virutual
> SUN
> machine in west michigan I could experiment on?  Or a static IP
> address with no
> proxy, willing to host a "client" (peer) application overnight a few
> times?
> 
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> Matt H.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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