Re. the future of thin-client, on-demand mobile devices / Grid infrastructure
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Friday September 23 2005 @ 11:54AM EDT
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InfoWorld - Grid Meter: ..."Shazam uses a very low-latency architecture (a big Linux cluster running diskless on commodity, 64-bit hardware). When a user submits a music quiery (an applet sitting on the phone does a short recording and sends an audio file to the Shazam service, via Java), the request goes to the master node, then gets multicasted over TCP/IP to a 'recognition cluster.' The nodes in the recognition cluster are filled with hash tables containing indeces of the music."...
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