Computes Now Supports NPM Modules!

Computes.io now supports NPM modules! This enhancement will open a new class of very powerful distributed supercomputing applications. Special thanks to Nick Niemeir for contributing the idea and helping with the design and troubleshooting.

Now you can build a server-side application using numerous NPM modules that ultimately publish it to npmjs.org. Using npm://module_name@version as the computes operation will now fetch the NPM module, browserify it, and pass it to computes cores along with data for computing.

Here’s an example of how to use it:

Take a look at the sample computes-echo NPM module for more details.

Now 300k+ modules are fair game for computes.io supercomputer computing!