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From: | "Steven Knight" <privateryan35 AT free16 DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Question (To be or not to be) |
Date: | Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:32:58 +0100 |
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I have an idea and I would like to pick your brains to see if it is practical. OPRS This system would work like a client/server relationship where there is one server (Main PC) and all who want to join are servers. The people at server end could download a file that tells there PC to do some calculations (Say finding a password). The idea of setting up a scheme like this is that fairly powerful computers all around the world can simultaneously work on finding the password. What I would like to do is for the Server to use un-used cpu cycles to help find the password. When they have finished the part assigned to them in the download, they could send a file telling the main Client what the results are. If positive then a file is sent to all other servers telling them to cease. If negative then that part of the sequence is struck off and then the server is given another file, containing a different part of that sequence and so forth. So do you think this is possible. There doesn't need to be any UI except a run command and a receive/send data command. Thanks for your time and response Steven
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