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Record W2163670010 · doi:10.1109/hpcs.2006.46

The Snowflakes Distributed Computing System

2006· article· en· W2163670010 on OpenAlexaff
L. Birtz, Gabriel Girard

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicDistributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceWorkstationProgrammerSoftwareSnowflakeOperating systemDistributed computing

Abstract

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In the last decade, personal computers became more powerful and less expensive, and the development of Internet increased the connectivity of these machines. This situation opened many opportunities in the distributed computing world. Some projects such as SETI@home were launched to perform scientific computations on temporarily unused workstations. However, in most cases, the distributed computing software installed on the workstations could only execute predetermined applications. It was necessary to update the software to enable it to execute new applications. In this paper we present Snowflakes, a distributed computing software designed to download and execute arbitrary applications automatically. Like SETI@home, Snowflakes provides a screen saver that can be installed on the workstations of a laboratory to harness their computing power without disrupting the work of the users. We considered carefully the issues of security and ease of use. The applications distributed are authenticated and sandboxed to prevent accidental or malicious damage to the user machines. The software itself is easy to install and easy to configure with its graphical user interfaces. Moreover, Snowflakes features a simple API that enables a programmer to develop new applications rapidly.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.991
Threshold uncertainty score0.784

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.195 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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