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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (8280)11/8/2000 10:07:45 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer  Respond to of 14451
 
Companies working on standard for distributed computing

By Stephen Shankland

Staff Writer, CNET News.com

November 8, 2000, 5:05 p.m. PT

A group of companies has joined together to try to make it easier to take advantage of distributed computing, an increasingly popular method for harnessing otherwise wasted computing power.

Hewlett-Packard, Compaq Computer and SGI have joined with distributed computing software seller Platform Computing and a host of other companies to standardize the way computers are harnessed into distributed computing collections.

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