Parasitic computing

@article{Barabsi2001ParasiticC,
  title={Parasitic computing},
  author={Albert-L{\'a}szl{\'o} Barab{\'a}si and Vincent W. Freeh and Hawoong Jeong and Jay B. Brockman},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2001},
  volume={412},
  pages={894-897}
}

• Albert-László Barabási, Vincent W. Freeh, +1 author Jay B. Brockman
• Published 2001 in Nature
• DOI:10.1038/35091039

Reliable communication on the Internet is guaranteed by a standard set of protocols, used by all computers. Here we show that 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… CONTINUE READING

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