“‘I started out by putting together a few machines on my own, and then began adding the Web site in my e-mail signature on mailing lists,’ Charles Parnot, a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, explained. In a matter of months, he had jumped to 100 machines running at any given moment,” Blane Warrene reports for MacNewsWorld.
“Charles Parnot, a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University, had a lot of data to deal with in his human genetics research and not enough time. Then Parnot discovered Apple’s Xgrid, a technology preview for linking Macintosh computers into powerful clusters, and he began experimenting with a few computers to see what he could accomplish,” Warrene reports. “Fast forward five months, and what began as eight computers providing 4 GHz of processing power has become as many as 200 systems around the world providing between 80 and 130 GHz of processing power to Parnot’s efforts. The computer owners donate their processor power during idle time. A live gauge of the processing speed is displayed on Parnot’s Web site here.”
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