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To: Scumbria who wrote (134910)	5/14/2001 5:14:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re: "Clusters of computers are extremely versatile. They sit on people's desks and are used as workstations during the day. At night large jobs are farmed out to them." But in the real world, how many companies are doing this? Why not? BTW, I've had SETI @ home, using my PC to look for ET for about two years (so far no luck, as far as I know). I figure, why not. You have to wonder what percentage of computing potential is in use at any given moment. I think 1% would be a high estimate, considering all the PC's out there doing nothing but burning electricity. I could see computing time becoming a commodity at some point, sold or traded, or donated (as it is now with SETI, Intel's cancer research initiative, and several others programs), even from home PC's. Hay, shouldn't I be able to write off part of my PC cost if I'm donating part of it's use to a non-profit organization? John