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Perhaps you've seen this picture. It's such a simple and elegant way to partition a task between multiple computers, that it seems like the obvious right thing to do for all sorts of big tasks that can be broken into independent little tasks.

There are compute servers that use JavaSpaces for the space and run on top of Jini. There is a JXTA project to provide similar functionality over JXTA.

Layering software is often a good pattern, but needing to obtain, install and configure Jini or JXTA and a compute server adds a huge amount to the hassle required to start getting things done. The hassle is too much for developers. It is far, far too much for people who just want to "donate some cycles".

The goal of this project is to provide an implementation that is as simple to deploy as possible.

Description

One way to distribute computation between multiple computers is to use a common space. Jini and JXTA have projects that take this approach. This project aims to provide a framework for distributed computation that is structured much like a space-based compute server, but that can be deployed directly on J2SE without Jini or JXTA. The goals are to make using the framework and deployment both as simple as possible.