Just came across this info on the Juno thing.
It's from the Wall Street Journal.
Doesn't sound like such a bad deal for free internet
service. IMO it's better than constantly moving a
stupid ad banner out of the way.
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JUNO ONLINE JUMPS INTO SUPERCOMPUTING
Juno Online Services yesterday announced that it will launch the
Juno Virtual Supercomputing Project, an attempt to use the ISP's
subscriber base for distributed-computing projects. In
distributed computing, third-party computer users, often
scientific researchers engaged in large-scale projects, access
the hard drive space of individual users when their computers
would otherwise not be on. The most well-known example of
distributed computing is run by the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (SETI), which has spread its investigations to 2.8
million household PCs, which then provide SETI with the
equivalent of 500,000 years of computing time. Although Juno has
yet to reveal any potential users of its supercomputer network,
CEO Charles E. Ardai has said Juno subscribers would be allowed
to choose whether to download the software necessary to
participate in the project. However, Ardai suggested that
subscribers to the free service who decline to join the Virtual
Supercomputing Project may have to become paid subscribers.
Juno's free-subscriber ISP model has come under fire among
investors and analysts, as advertising revenue has vanished.
(Wall Street Journal, 2 February 2001)
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