On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jim Hu jimhu@tamu.edu wrote:
On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:26 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 22/02/2008, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@home.nl wrote:
Jim Hu schreef:
Could this be done by one of those grid applications like SETI at home? Or would the bandwidth usage make it not worth the benefit? I bet a lot of Wikipedia users would install a screensaver that did image resizing for you.
Maybe people should just resize their images before they upload them.
This was a donated image dump. You have grossly missed the point.
and not answered the question. The grid application could download and return the images in bunches as tgz. Doesn't have to be one at a time.
Or, we could have one dedicated server for long-running jobs. Pre-generate the "usual" thumbnail sizes for each large image. Maybe generate smaller thumbnails from larger ones, or multiple in one go, so it won't have to load a large image 10 times for 10 thumbnails. Not sure what to do for "unusual" sizes, though. Could be a DOS attac vector.
Magnus