node.js ko
node.pi
node.pi
by Awesomesauce
Distributed computation of Pi.
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joshthecoder — Madison, WI
marshall — Shady Shores, TX
cauld — Sunnyvale, CA
ozgurcemsen — San Francisco, CA
How
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nathanhammond
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tiffanykjudgeNice visuals. Like others, could not get the digits processed and cpu time beyond 0. A mouse over the varying sized dots with more information could be useful. +1 on pi theme.
therazorbladejudgeCould not get it to work. Digits and cpu stayed at zero. Was it suppose to show what was computed so far?
- contestant
chrome ? safari ? IE? :)
- therazorbladejudge
I tried it on both Chrome and FF. It loads, displays the balls and the stats on the right. It then allocated a client id on top. That’s as far as I got. CPU time and digits processed stays at zero. Can’t see how many digits have been calculated combined by everyone.
chrismatthieujudgeSETI for pi!
ryanmcgrath
judgeComplete, does what it says, gotta love distributed computing with JS.
That said, the utility of it is limited… nice job all around though!
jerrysievertjudgeNothing seemed to be incrementing or displaying anything but 0’s for all clients – so docked heavily on completeness.
- contestant
we have a bug on clicking on the balls: gury events are not bound properly, so you’re not seeing work done by the actual client.
the calculation starts taking longer and longer as the digits progress, so you may not see immediate results on the “HUD” top of the screen.
as i type this, it seems we’re about 31K digits into the pi.
*and yes, we should’ve noted the shortcomings :)
ireneinkyujudgeI like the design and the idea, but I want to know what I’ve computed. Digits and cpu remained zero for me, too, despite letting it run for a while. Unsure if this is a bug, my browser, incompleteness, etc., but this is a site I could get hooked on, for sure…
ncb000gt
contestantmustardamus
contestantDistributed computing in Node? Sure! But I also would prefer more information of whats going on rather than dots.
sreeix
contestantlinus
contestantCool idea! Reminds me of maprejuice from last year.
I second mattsoldo: Show me which digit I am calculating, and show me the result when it’s done!
mattsoldojudgeGreat visual design. Love the infographic of the computation nodes.
How do I see how many digits of pi have been computed? Or how many digits I have computed. From an info design perspective this should be front and center.
ricardobeat
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I like the idea of using JS as a simple distributed computation platform. I love the Matrix-like opening page and how it looks. I wish I could get more feedback as to what was going on while it was working, but once you’re in the process of searching for a digit, it is kinda hard to tell where you are in the process.