On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:14:54 -0500, you wrote:
>
>This is a the gist of a message on the theory-edge group that I just
>received:
>
>>here's a nice technology review article on
>>distributed computing startups & technology.
>
>>http://www.techreview.com/web/essex031201.asp
>
>And this is coming from people who are also interested in pure mathematics!
>Actually, the review mentions us, so its not half bad compared to others. It
>gives what seems to be an accurate summary of the current economic situation
>for for-profit distributed computing. I reccomend that everyone read it.
Personally, I think it could have given a slightly longer mention of
us - especially in view of the repeated mentions of SETI. This is the
total discussion of GIMPS in the article:
"The company claiming the most experience is Entropia of San Diego.
Formed in 1997, it provided technology for SETI@Home and for The Great
Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a search for the largest prime
numbers. "
To be fair, though, distributed.net was not mentioned in much greater
detail.
That said, I found it intersting that there are so many companies in
for-profit distributed computing these days, compared to even when I
joined GIMPS, slightly over a year ago. There is /still/ little
public word about what type of work is being done, and there are still
no companies that pay users on a per CPU hour/day basis, which is
something that I would expect fairly soon.
Nathan
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