Re: Parasitic Computing

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Date: 01/01/02 

From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 12:32:39 +0100

Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio wrote:
>
> routed wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 04:28:10 +0100, Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk> wrote:
> > > Michael Erskine wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Uh, yep... parasitic computing.
> > >
> > > Is that supposed to be a joke?
> > >
> >
> > Probably he mean hacked/cracked systems being used by malicious
> > people. Or do you mean GPL'ed software ;9 ?
>
> Or maybe http://www.nd.edu/~parasite

Exactly, that has got to be a joke. A quote from the page:

   Our implementation of parasitic computing is
   not efficient. If it is made efficient, it
   could offer unlimited computational power.

At least they know it is currently not usable for
distributed computations. But anybody with knowledge of
networking would say that it is never going to be usable.
Checksums are designed to be fast to computer, so that
any computer is able to produce outputpackets with
correct checksum at the rate it can send them onto the
network. Computing the checksums locally is always going
to be easier, faster, and more reliable than sending
them to another computer and looking for a reply.

What remains is only that people can flood you with TCP
packets if they want to. 

-- 
Kasper Dupont

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