You might want to check some of your information Michael....
According to TechEncyclopedia, peer-to-peer computing is:
Sharing the CPU resources across a network so that all machines function as one large supercomputer. It allows unused CPU capacity in any of the machines to be allocated to the total processing job required. In a large enterprise, hundreds of desktop machines are often sitting idle at any given time. The goal is to use this processing potential more efficiently.
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm?ter m=PEER%2DTO%2DPEERCOMPUTING&exact=1
It looks like that is the way that Intel is using it.
I have to say that it seems that you are awfully cynical about a good program. I read on their site:
The results from the computing in this program {THINK} will be compiled by United Devices* and subsequently delivered to the University of Oxford* and the National Foundation for Cancer Research* for additional study. These are both non-profit organizations. The University of Oxford* will own the intellectual property associated with any discovery they find and the resulting data will be made available to the public, at no cost, sometime after their initial research is completed.
and it was also said:
The use of your processors is only being used for the cancer research program. The processor speed and/or capacity is not being sold/traded/given to any other company for any other purpose.
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You might want to check some of your information Michael.... According to TechEncyclopedia, peer-to-peer computing is: Sharing the CPU resources across a network so that all machines function as one large supercomputer. It allows unused CPU capacity in any of the machines to be allocated to the total processing job required. In a large enterprise, hundreds of desktop machines are often sitting idle at any given time. The goal is to use this processing potential more efficiently.r m=PEER%2DTO%2DPEERCOMPUTING&exact=1
It looks like that is the way that Intel is using it.
I have to say that it seems that you are awfully cynical about a good program. I read on their site:
The results from the computing in this program {THINK} will be compiled by United Devices* and subsequently delivered to the University of Oxford* and the National Foundation for Cancer Research* for additional study. These are both non-profit organizations. The University of Oxford* will own the intellectual property associated with any discovery they find and the resulting data will be made available to the public, at no cost, sometime after their initial research is completed.
and it was also said:
The use of your processors is only being used for the cancer research program. The processor speed and/or capacity is not being sold/traded/given to any other company for any other purpose.
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm?te
slashdot: Proof that some people can do research before they write something