COMP: "Mipsucking" parallel computing

From: John Blanco-Losada (jbl@clark.net)
Date: Wed Jan 08 1997 - 07:51:11 MST


>From today's HotFlash bulletin. Go to http://www.packet.com/ and click
on the Markets button to get to this article:

>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. Check out Schrage on markets...

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