[IP] DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY (NewsScan Daily, 6 June 2003)

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Sounds to me like not all that easy -- security issues etc.


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Subject: [open-source] DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY (NewsScan Daily, 6
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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY

Berkeley scientist David Anderson has devised a cheaper and easier way to
write distributed computing software, paving the way for more projects that
rely on the combined power of millions of idle computers to seek solutions
to some of life's mysteries -- such as a cure for cancer or whether there's
extraterrestrial life out there. About a dozen research projects now depend
on distributed computing, but up until now the software needed to exploit
the unused power of volunteers' PCs has been expensive and time-consuming
to create. Anderson's open-source software will eliminate those barriers.
"The more projects that start using distributed computing the more people
will be interested in lending their computers for research," says
Anderson.(Popular Science Jun 2003)
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,454648,00.html

NewsScan Daily, 6 June 2003


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