We decided to exploit this scale, together with Node’s high I/O performance, to build a large-scale distributed computing project that people could join just by visiting a web page. Searching for aliens was quickly eliminated as we didn’t have our own antenna array available at the time. So we went with a somewhat easier problem: Chess.
I'm really not a fan of Node.js, as anyone who knows me knows, but this is awesome regardless of the underlying tech.
