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To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (1151)10/25/2000 5:53:11 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 46821
 
Re: CPU cycles for sale

Hi Lew,

I get a little giddy thinking about Ray's
comment, in his reply to you, in post 1118 regarding the
possibility of selling CPU time back during non peak
periods. As a business proposition, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. The SETI project is strictly voluntary as will be most other similar distributed super-computing applications. The Napster-Gnutella-Scour model comes into view here.

For any sort of serious CPU-cycle intensive apps, I'd expect that we might see companies like the box makers, DELL, CPQ, HP or CRA/Pararcel or even INTC/AMD offering what would essentially be a reversion to the time-sharing schemes of the '70's. No corporation is going to take the security risk of throwing paying work out into the messy and crackerz laden public networks. Just too much risk in that strategy.

That said there are companies in the market now who are trying to pioneer a role for themselves as middlemen/agents between independent potential CPU-cycle vendors (you and me) and markets. I just don't have a lot of expectation for success for this as a business model, though technically, it's certainly a reasonable extension of the network's capability.

Best, Ray
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