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Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser - igvita.com
www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/, posted 2009 by peter in cloudcomputing collaboration distributed javascript
What if you could contribute to a computational (Map-Reduce) job by simply pointing your browser to a URL? Surely your social network wouldn't mind opening a background tab to help you crunch a dataset or two! Instead of focusing on high-throughput proprietary protocols and high-efficiency data planes to distribute and deliver the data, we could use battle tested solutions: HTTP and your favorite browser. It just so happens that there are more Javascript processors around the world (every browser can run it) than for any other language out there - a perfect data processing platform.