Stanford gives thumbs up to distributed computing

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Aron Schatz
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October 23, 2002
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Stanford is praising DC as a way for researchers to quickly get the data processing they need. Using thousands of computer makes a mega supercomputer.

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The idea of tapping spare processing power from ordinary PCs has seized the imagination of the computing industry, luring thousands of volunteers into donating their spare CPU cycles to the search for extraterrestrial life and to the battle against diseases such as cancer. But none of those efforts has contributed to publishable scientific results, Pande said.


It hasn't seized my imagination.

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