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New? Amusing. My favorite transparent load-balancing system for
balancing processes on a computing cluster, MOSIX (or OpenMOSIX), has
used this approach (probe a few neighbors plus a random assortment)
for many years for deciding how to spread the load efficiently
(efficient diffusion of tasks). The book on it (MOSIX) was written in
1993...
best,
-tony
>>>>> "BW" == Barry Wellman <[log in to unmask]> writes:
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BW> Here's a press release just out from Rennselaer Polytechnic University. It
BW> cites a Science story but doesn't give the URL
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