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In recent years, news feeds have been flooded with reports of new types of distributed computing networks emerging seemingly out of nowhere, tackling (or rather trying to tackle) a variety of tasks \u2014 making cities smart, saving the world from copyright violators, or conversely, secretly transmitting information or resources, escaping state control in one sphere or another. Regardless of the area, they all share a number of common features, stemming from the fact that the fuel for their growth has been algorithms and methodologies that surfaced widely during the recent boom in cryptocurrencies and related technologies. Probably every third article on specialized resources at that time had the word \u201cblockchain\u201d in its title \u2014 discussions of new software solutions and economic models became a dominant trend, overshadowing other areas of application for distributed computing systems. <\/p>\n

At the same time, visionaries and professionals recognized the essence of the phenomenon: mass distributed computing, related to the construction of networks composed of a large number of disparate and heterogeneous participants, has reached a new level of development. It\u2019s enough to cast aside the hype-driven topics and look at the matter from a different angle: all these networks, assembled from vast pools containing thousands of isolated and diverse participants, did not emerge by themselves. Crypto movement enthusiasts have managed to resolve complex issues of data synchronization and resource and task distribution in a new way, enabling the assembly of such a mass of equipment and creating a new ecosystem designed to solve one narrow-focused task.
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\nOf course, this did not escape the teams and communities involved in the development of free distributed computing, and new projects were quick to emerge.
\nHowever, despite the significant increase in the volume of available information on developments in the field of network construction and hardware utilization, creators of promising systems will have to address serious challenges.<\/p>\n

The first of these, as strange as it may sound, is the problem of choosing a direction.<\/h3>\n

\nThe direction may be correct, or it could lead to a dead end \u2014 there's no escaping that; centralized supplies of visionaries in the IT community are still lagging behind. However, a choice must be made to avoid falling into the traditional trap, which is that the team takes on too broad a scope and attempts to create yet another unspecialized project in wide-ranging distributed computing right from the start. It seems that the workload isn't so daunting; primarily, it involves just applying existing developments: connecting nodes into a network, adapting topology detection algorithms, data exchange, and consistency control, implementing node ranking methodologies and consensus finding, and, of course, simply creating your own query language and its entire linguistic and computational environment. The idea of a universal mechanism is very tempting and constantly resurfaces in one sphere or another, but the result still tends to be one of three outcomes: the created solution either turns out to be a limited prototype with a backlog full of hanging 'ToDos,' or it becomes an unusable monster, ready to drag anyone who touches it into a foul 'Turing swamp,' or simply dies due to the project being pulled in an obscure direction and collapsing under the weight of a 'swank, crab, and pike' scenario.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s avoid making foolish mistakes and choose a direction that has a clear set of tasks and is well-suited for the distributed computing model. One can understand people who try to do everything at once \u2014 there is certainly a lot to choose from. Much looks extremely interesting both from an R&D and development perspective, as well as from an economic standpoint. With the help of a distributed network, one can:<\/p>\n