{"id":138,"date":"2004-08-30T14:50:32","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/networks\/138\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T19:51:26","slug":"parasitic-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/138\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasitic Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.edu\/~parasite\/\" target=\"_other\">Parasitic computing<\/a> is an interesting idea from Albert-L&#225;szl&#243; Barab&#225;si. From the site:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parasitic computing is an example of a potential technology that could be viewed simultaneously as a threat or healthy addition to the online universe. On the Internet, reliable communication is guaranteed by a standard set of protocols, used by all computers. These protocols can be exploited to compute with the communication infrastructure, transforming the Internet into a distributed computer in which servers unwittingly perform computation on behalf of a remote node. In this model, one machine forces target computers to solve a piece of a complex computational problem merely by engaging them in standard communication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networked objects\" rel=\"tag\">networked objects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/networks\" rel=\"tag\">networks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the site:&#8221;Parasitic computing is an example of a potential technology that could be viewed simultaneously as a threat or healthy addition to the online universe&#8230;.  These protocols can be exploited to compute with the communication infrastructure, transforming the Internet into a distributed computer in which servers unwittingly perform computation on behalf of a remote node.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/networks\/138\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Parasitic Computing<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}