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Subject: Re: Peer-to-Peer Networks and Chess

Author: Ratko V Tomic

Date: 10:08:11 09/21/00

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> 2. Send the same data to two or more participants and verify that
> their results match.

You would need at least 3 nodes working on the same task to make the majority
vote reliable. That factor is in addition to the coordination losses inherent in
the parallelism. I guess, with 100,000 machines, it might still leave a speedup
factor of 5-10 thousands relative to a single machine.




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