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= Browser / HTTP Map-Reduce driver

Working example of browser based, HTTP driven map-reduce for a distributed word count. The jobs are assigned by the job-server and computation is done by the clients browser, after which the results are posted back (emit) to the server and the cycle repeats until the computation is done.

== Huh, why?

It's a proof of concept with the goal of lowering the barrier to entry for any online user to contribute some of their spare CPU cycles to a distributed computation. After all, what could be easier than clicking a link?

== Launching example

(1) > ruby jobserver.rb -p 80 -e production (2) > open your browser and point it to the jobserver

That's it.

For full details, take a look at: http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/

== Contact Ilya Grigorik [email protected] (Twitter: @igrigorik)