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Distributed.net Joins United Devices

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-commercial dept.

Nugget94M writes "distributed.net announced today that it is joining forces with United Devices, a commercial distributed computing company. Several of the distributed.net volunteers are trading in their old, boring day jobs for new jobs working on distributed computing with United Devices. The agreement between the two organizations provides for ports of current and future distributed.net projects to run on the United Devices commercial network, and provides distributed.net with server hardware (new stasbox!) and hosting services."

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  1. Complementary Press Release by Malicose · · Score: 4

    United Devices has posted its own press release covering the same arrangement but with new quotes and details.

  2. Competition with ProcessTree? by Geek+Dash+Boy · · Score: 4
    With ProcessTree getting their first paying client, is the timing of this annoucement a coincidence?

    The annoucement claims that they'll distributed.net will continue on with non-profit biz as usual, but that could change at anytime.

    The field of for-pay dist. computing is going to see some competition in the near future, methinks.

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    I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
  3. New projects by SeanCier · · Score: 4

    Others are doing new projects: for instance, Parabon (disclaimer: my employer) is doing cancer research, 3d rendering, bioinformatics (e.g. gene sequencing), et cetera (and anything you code up and run: our SDK is available).

    -spc