Subject: Hot Wired Article of Interest

From: Geoffrey Fox <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 14:44:47 -0500

Paul Coddington at NPAC notes:
There is an interesting article in HotWired this week, about people
running Web sites that get lots of hits trying to figure out if they can
usefully use cycles on all the computers that connect to their Web sites.

The blurb says: 

Idle minds are the devil's playpen, but who plays in an idle CPU?
Mipsucking JavaScript applets, that's who. This Tuesday, Michael Schrage
reports on a technology that could turn a Web site into a massively
parallel meta-supercomputer by harnessing the unused cycles of visiting
machines. 
 
     http://www.packet.com/

Select the Tuesday entry.

Geoffrey Fox  [email-masked],   http://www.npac.syr.edu 
Phone 3154432163 (Npac central 3154431723) Fax 3154434741