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Ten Thousand Cents
"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.
distributed  art  amazon  type:idea 
april 2008 by afroginthevalley
Firefly Media Server :: Home Page
...built the best server software to serve digital music to the Roku Soundbridge and iTunes; to be able to serve the widest variety of digital music content over the widest range of devices.
digitalmedia  distributed  opensource  audio 
january 2008 by afroginthevalley
Kosmos Distributed File System
Kosmos Distributed File System (KFS), a high performance distributed file system
* Primarily write-once/read-many workloads
* Few millions of large files, where each file is on the order of a few tens of MB to a few tens of GB
* Mostly sequential access
distributed  filesystem  opensource  scaling  type:software  type:sourcecode 
september 2007 by afroginthevalley
Technology Review: The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive
New Web-based services don't just store your data online -- they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone.
distributed  type:trend 
february 2007 by afroginthevalley
About Hadoop
Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named map/reduce, where the appli
distributed  framework  grid  java  opensource 
january 2007 by afroginthevalley
[delicious-discuss] re: del.irio.us and distributed folksonomies
Think of it as a replacement for archive.org that uses a del.icio.us like system (and anything else that generates an RSS feed) to categorise its archives.
folksonomy  socionomie  social  data  architecture  distributed 
march 2005 by afroginthevalley

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