MM> G'morning Bob,

 MM>> They're going for 129 PC's now...

 BK>>  Check into Setiathome. There are other distributed computer
 BK>>  systems on line.

 MM> Seti's much the same thing, of course - at different sizes
 MM> of sub- task and with a different time scale.

 MM> Wasn't SETI preceded by a humungus code-cracking
 MM> distribution ?

 I vaguely recall that. The one I remember was a large
 multiprocessor single computer, that was used to crack some code
 that had a monetary challenge, but I do seem to recall a
 distributed one. I also recall a distributed system for some
 medical research.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?
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