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I love it when things just happen, especially when they fly in the face of the predictions of pundits and experts. The real power of network computing, we were told, was going to be the ability to har

By Paul Rolich | Updated on October 31, 2007

I love it when things just happen, especially when they fly in the face of the predictions of pundits and experts. The real power of network computing, we were told, was going to be the ability to harness multiple computers and processors and create vast computing grids that would have more muscle than the biggest Cray money could buy.

So, what have we gotten from distributed grid computing? We still haven’t found ET, and the last time I looked, SETI@home still was looking for him or her or it. We have managed to crack some serious encryptions utilizing a networked grid, and that is fun, but they all have been one-offs and take way too much time to be of any practical use.

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