following article I found at the RSS feed of kurzweilAI.net:
"Spreading the load"
They deal with the increased voluntary participation as a helper for complex calculations or sorting through the Internet.
It is split the cost of large projects on many volunteers that have Internet access. It is either used EXCESS vinegars Rechenkapazitaet their computer or take the aid workers themselves the time to do small tasks.
The same task is sent to multiple people, so that the result whether to Beisiel a photo or a spiral galaxy barred spiral galaxy shows measuring the result of a "real" scientist could.
world at the huge number of Internet users have enough of a tiny part to still move a lot of people to participate.
The operating speed of such helper Network Tools trumps because of their size slightly super computer many times. This is followed
is no change in the future, as the number of people with Internet access continues to improve and is the average speed of their computers even increases with time exponentially (Moore's Law).
same access to supercomputers and only a limited number of processors which are not much faster than in a standard PC. The high processing speed is made possible by the simultaneous use of several thousand Prozessioren. But so many helpers, you will get together on the Internet with ease.
This distribution of work reminds me very strongly to the way our brain. Tasks are easily solved through the cooperation of a network of many neurons. Such examples
amaze me again and again because they illustrate how quickly the human race moves forward to the collective intelligence.
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