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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY (NewsScan Daily, 6 June 2003)
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 13:11:31 -0400
Sounds to me like not all that easy -- security issues etc. ------ Forwarded Message From: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com> Reply-To: "Peter G. Neumann" <neumann () csl sri com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 9:55:37 PDT To: open-source () csl sri com Subject: [open-source] DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING MADE EASY (NewsScan Daily, 6 June 2003) 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 ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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