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posted by Editor on Wednesday March 27, @07:26PM
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This article in Scientific American envisions a single operating system spanning the entire Internet when peer-to-peer computing is carried out to its logical conclusion. This Internet-scale operating system (ISOS) would use economic theory to distribute Internet-wide computing resources equally among users and allocate reimbursements to the owners of those resources. The article starts out with a compelling scenario in which media content and processing cycles are universally and seamlessly shared between office and home PCs, and mobile laptops (see picture). It then reviews some of theory behind deciding how to allocate resources, and how to compensate resource suppliers, focusing on file-sharing systems such as Mojo Nation in which users are paid in a virtual currency ("mojo") for use of their resources and they in turn must pay mojo to use the system. It concludes with a sketch of an ISOS architecture, which consists of minimalist, microkernel-based operating systems for the clients, and central servers for controlling the flow of resources.
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