Bug#153006: Debian package for Eccp109
Hello!
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:59:52AM -0500, cmonico wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> They do have other challenges which are still unsolved, but this client
> won't help with those either. It is very, very highly optimized for this
> particular challenge, to the point of being completely useless for any other
> one. (i.e., the parameters of the challenge are hardcoded in, and very special
> properties unique to those parameters are very heavily used). It would be
> harder to adapt this code for another one than it would be to write another
> from scratch, I think. Not to mention that in hindsight, there are some things
> that I would have done completely differently anyway.
Then i'm sorry, but i can't justify an inclusion of the current client in
Debian. Our project dedicates a lot of effort on issues like porting, quality
assurance and security auditing for all supported packages, and it'd be
a mess of resources if the package in question can only last for a few months.
However, I like your project very much. If you ever do something for undefined
term, (like distributed.net for example) that can last for long time i'd be
very happy to package it as long as it's free software.
> However, there have been some plans for writing more useful client
> front-ends that could serve as the front-end for any compliant distributed
> project. We are thinking about a front end and protocol that:
>
> 1) Accepts many computational kernels, depending on what distributed tasks the
> user would like to participate in.
> 2) Controls them in a completely user-specified manner (even several
> simultaneuosly, with using user-specified amounts of CPU).
> 3) Gives info & stats on the local computation, as well as the capability to
> retrieve more stats from a server.
> 4) Capable of querying a server to see what computational kernels / versions
> are available, to notify the user of updated software versions.
>
>
> This is just a very short list. There are many more particulars we have in
> mind that would make such a project very robust and worthwhile. I don't know
> if this will ever get off the ground. It's just something that was being
> discussed a while back, but none of us seem to have any time to dedicate to
> it. However, if I do another DC project, I will find the time to make at least
> a primitive and expandable version of such a front-end.
This is very interesting. Hope you have the chance to play with all that
options. contact me if you have any news.
cheers,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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