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Subject: Bungie Community, Wanna Crunch Some Data?

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.


Posted by: mark117 mia2553
Let say Bungie needed a data server farm or cluster to crunch a lot of data for a game. Instead of that, why not disperse the data crunching to the member computers.

Even if each user, in the current population of Bungie.net, crunched 100 KB of data it would amount to a lot of data calculated on their servers they have now. They could migrated the incoming data to a secured location.

What do you think about this idea? Would this even work? Thoughts?


That'd mean some sketchy permissions being given to an external server to our computers. I'd totally be up for it, but god forbid something gets into Bungie's servers, finds a path to user computers... You can tell what happens from there.

  • 07.28.2012 8:22 AM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.


Posted by: dazarobbo
This is an example of grid computing, where each member's computer would (hypothetically) be running some kind of client program to communicate with the Bungie server. Some people have probably heard of SETI@home (Search for Extra Terrestrial Life) or LHC@home (Large Hadron Collider), which operates the same way (you can download a client and use your leftover CPU cycles and bandwidth to contribute to research).

Two problems (at least):

1) For the number of members who would download and run something like this, it's probably not going to make much difference. I can't imagine there would be too many people who would want to run something like this to view stats, for instance (and those data points probably aren't going to require any processing once they're at the server-side (eg. after being transferred from a console)).

2) When you look at existing global distributed systems like the ones I mentioned above, you're looking at massive amounts of data processing from scientific applications (eg. predicting weather patterns, particle physics, etc...) that can't be processed in the one place (and given the size of CERN's computing power, you can probably imagine the scale of it). So what would Bungie be doing that would require extra computational power?

Totally infeasible, IMO.


And that too^

  • 07.28.2012 8:23 AM PDT

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Posted by: doctor woot
how the hell did you manage to join the site before the internet existed
did you submit your application by mail

Is this OP a bungie employee with vague information to coerse the masses as a scheduled scheme towards world domination? If not then this is pointless.

  • 07.28.2012 8:36 AM PDT

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This just in, Destiny is a scale virtual replica of Planet Earth to render this intense artificial world we need the grid!

*cues in something TRON related*

  • 07.28.2012 7:55 PM PDT

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  • 07.29.2012 6:32 AM PDT

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While I am a fan of distributed computing, one down side I see is the possible tainting of data. Who's to say I won't reverse engineer the program used, and start sending out false data. A system like this would need a lot of redundant data integrity checks.

  • 07.29.2012 7:07 AM PDT
Subject: Bungie Data Crunchers Idea


Posted by: DARKHELMET
Is this OP a bungie employee with vague information to coerse the masses as a scheduled scheme towards world domination? If not then this is pointless.
I'm absolutely not an employee! I just wanted to share my idea with the community and Bungie.

[Edited on 07.30.2012 6:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.30.2012 6:43 PM PDT

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