By admin on Sep 1, 2008 in interesting | 0 Comments
Prism (formerly, Webrunner) is a prototype application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. Prism lets users add their favorite web apps to their desktop environment:
By admin on Aug 25, 2008 in interesting | 0 Comments
OpenDHT is a publicly accessible distributed hash table (DHT) service. In contrast to the usual DHT model, clients of OpenDHT do not need to run a DHT node in order to use the service. Instead, they can issue put and get operations to any DHT node, which processes the operations on their behalf. No credentials [...]
By admin on Aug 25, 2008 in interesting | 0 Comments
PlanetLab is an open platform for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale services. It is similar to Google App Engine but is more for academic research purposes.
By admin on May 19, 2008 in interesting, open source, research | 0 Comments
Here are some open source grid computing software that are quite interesting. GridGain is the open source grid computing software for Java. It is dual-licensed under LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses and is built on open source software foundation BOINC is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. BOINC is designed [...]
By admin on May 10, 2008 in interesting | 0 Comments
Statistical analysis is always an interesting field. For those gamblers either they perform structural or non-structural analysis on their own or using software. E.g., in a 6/49 lottery (the most common world wide) there are 13,983,816 possible combinations. If, say, every combination were to come out just once, in random order, in 14 million draws, [...]