The POPCORN project
Global Distributed computation over the internet in Java
| The POPCORN project provides an infrastructure for globally distributed
computation over the whole internet. It provides any programmer connected
to the internet with a single huge virtual parallel computer composed of
all processors on the internet that care to participate at any given moment.
A market-based mechanism of trade in CPU time underlines the system as
to motivate processors to provide their CPU cycles for other people's computations.
During mid 1997 till mid 1998 we had an online Popcorn Market that could be visited on the web. We are not maintaining this market anymore. You can still access our documentation and papers. |
contact us at popcorn@cs.huji.ac.il