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Gateway Puts Wasted Cycles to Work

Posted by michael on from the waste-not-want-not dept.

f. liszt writes "Gateway will be offering for sale to corporations the processing power available from networked display PCs in their stores -- seems like a logical enough idea."

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  1. Re:Spare Cycles @ Work by Agent+Green · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tell that to the poor tech in Georgia who was getting sued by his employer for doing the exact same thing:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/23477.htm l

    It hurts nothing until it's your ass getting kicked.

    --
    // Agent Green (Ian / IU7 / KB1JQO)
    // IEEE 802.3: All 10base Are Belong To Us
  2. Re:Would you want,... by tmark · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some perspective is in order. While I don't think the article mentioned whose solution Gateway was using, most grid computing platforms running on untrusted machines are going to use encryption, most machines aren't going to look at enough of a job to be useful even if the encryption was broken, and each individual job is going to be run on multiple machines to ensure one machine doesn't (intentionally or not) return faulty data.

    What data would people pay to have crunched in public ? Well, I can tell you that animation houses, financial shops and biotechnology companies are all crunching their data "in public".