June 03, 2001
Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit
Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit
By connecting thousands of PC's, they can harness more power than a supercomputer. These companies — called distributed-computing, or "peer to peer," services — then resell the power to other companies and research concerns that need the muscle of a supercomputer but do not want to pay supercomputer prices.
Posted by rshah at June 3, 2001 12:00 PM