Yes the article does go into great detail re Beowulf clusters, but the
penultimate paragraph contains:
"An equally important trend is the development of networks of PCs that
contribute their processing power to a collective task. An example is
SETI@home, ..."
As usual, we get ignored while SETI gets all the publicity.
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Subject: Re: Mersenne: scientific american
>Article seems to detail tightly-coupled Beowulf clusters, not the sort
>of internet-linked distributed computing we are doing. Have I got the
wrong
>article?
>
>I'm looking at:
>
>http://sciam.com/2001/0801issue/0801hargrove.html
>
>Best Wishes,
>Stefanovic
>
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>> There is an article this in the new Scientific American on distributed
>> computing, but no mention of GIMPS. I feel cheated. spike
>>
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