Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spot instances are insanely cheap, not talking about EC2.
EC2 spot instances are still EC2.
But cheaper.
Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
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Re: Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
#42Ok, this is similar to Gridcoin ( https://gridcoin.io/ ) , Golem ( https://cryptoslate.com/coins/golem/ ) , SPARC ( https://sparc.network/ ) , et al. I could keep going, but the point is, something like this exists. And we are seeing the issues of what happens when you embed a program that takes advantage of processing power. You get things like Coinhive ( https://coinhive.com/ ), which were meant to be benign, turne…
Tangentially related - http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/
This was one of the first attempts to monetize spare CPU capacity and to build a business around massively distributed computing. It seems to be in a zombi mode now, but it was launched almost 10 years ago - https://web.archive.org/web/20080529034258/http://www.gomezp...
Re: Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's what you would initially think, but a clever adversary can produce arbitrarily many identities, so even if results agree, there is a non-zero chance that all of the agreeing nodes are compromised. Even if you begin blacklisting nodes, an attacker can simply spoof new ones. So then you need a proof of work scheme to defend against sybil attacks, but even then an attacker could choose to only produce incorrect o…
Use homomorphic encryption to ensure attackers can't tell when they get the same thing twice. IPs are not so cheap, anyway. If you have enough legitimate traffic it would be tough to spoof enough.
IPs are very cheap. You aren't renting them for a month. You are using them for a few requests.
Re: Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
#44opportunity here to create cloud computation platforms where people submit work which gets executed on other people's machines who are getting paid to allow their browser to contribute compute ... eventually price of AWS / google compute engine will drop ... win win
>eventually price of AWS / google compute engine will drop
Lol
Re: Turning web traffic into a Super Computer
#45opportunity here to create cloud computation platforms where people submit work which gets executed on other people's machines who are getting paid to allow their browser to contribute compute ... eventually price of AWS / google compute engine will drop ... win win
Seems like getting a Linux kernel and a LAMP stack running on this would be a good first step. The technical challenge of doing it sounds fun and interesting. The real payoff may be when a billing and payment system is able to consolidate billing from processing clients and to distribute the payments to the owners of the processing clients based on the work performed
Why did the parent get downvoted?