Ramanujan-Computing: Distributed Computing with Idle Smart Devices: Open-Source

3 pointsposted 7 months ago
by ps_ramanujan

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2 Comments

gus_massa

7 months ago

In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549549 I get a login wall. You should make a landing page with info about the project, perhaps a copy of what you wrote here.

From https://github.com/Ramanujan-Computing/Ramanujan it looks similar to javascript. How different is it?

ps_ramanujan

7 months ago

Hi @gus_massa, Thanks for the comment!

Have added a landing page which gives information about the project.

>>>it looks similar to javascript. How different is it?

Definitely at code level, the syntax matches that of javascript. But the real magic is what can run it. The idea is that the given Ramanujan code can be ran on any digital device, so that the idle computation power of the devices can be used. The goal is, if we can make computing open for everyone. Right now, for a researcher to run their simulation, either needs a big computer in-house, or they spend lot of money on cloud services. For a highly funded team, its okay, but from small budgeted team like University students / profs, it becomes a bottleneck. Right now, the university would have tons of computation power in house from these digital device, but they can't be used. With this project, such computation power can be used.

Thanks!