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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^