[Imported from Trac: page Summit2Day1, version 3]

swillden 2011-11-09 14:43:42 +00:00
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@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ expected vs required vs known, k-of-N, H, points, understandability
- challenge of identifying reliability of nodes
- Brian says client/gateway should expect user to teach it what sort of
grid they expect, so it can bail when expectations aren't met
- Shawn would prefer scheme where client measures reliability itself,
- Shawn would prefer scheme where client measures node reliability itself
(though in the near term allows the user to specify node reliabilities),
sets N to the number of servers currently accepting shares, sets H
slightly below N (to improve upload availability) and computes and
uses a k that maximizes performance (or minimizes cost) while achieving