Re: SETI like tass project

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Dirk,

I had no intention of trying to send image data over the internet.  The 
bandwidth of the mail service is quit high, there is just a long cable 
delay.  Assume I would mail out "packets" of 10 GByte or so of images.

Tom Droege

At 03:30 PM 1/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:02:52 -0600, Tom Droege wrote:
>
> >Let's discuss how we might do this.
>
>I have a bit of experience in this area. I do the OS/2 port of the S@H
>client and I have written a distributed computing client/server project
>called SwiftPC that does solar system dynamics calculations.
>
>The TASS data situation is probably quite a bit different from S@H or
>SwiftPC in that the CPU need per megabyte of data is much lower. That
>is, we are probably bandwidth limited rather than CPU limited with this
>problem. The time required to download data will be larger than the
>processing time. That's not the kind of problem that lends itself to
>distributed computing. The way to tackle this problem is, as you
>suggest, to have a few machines chew through it. In the long run, I
>think you want to process the data as they are taken, eliminating the
>need to do a huge amount all at once. Now, where it might get
>interesting is if you have a bunch of (date,magnitude) pairs for huge
>numbers of objects and you want to do a variability analysis. That
>might be more appropriate for a distributed computing project.
>
>Dirk