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Proponents of distributed computing hope that many hands may make a profit, too.
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It taps the unused computing cycles of nearly one million computers around the world — much like SETI@home, the best-known distributed computing effort, which claims it has harnessed more than 3 million PCs in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Microsoft's.NET initiative also emphasizes such distributed computing.
SETI researchers ran into the obsolescence problem before turning to distributed computing.
Even more ambitious distributed computing efforts are under way at research laboratories, including those at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where researchers are trying to build radically distributed computing systems that look beyond today's Internet.
Distributed computing projects operate sporadically -- that is, when data is available to analyze and there are no technical glitches.
SETI@home is one of the first and best-known distributed computing projects.
Now the firm's researchers are extending it to distributed computing.
With distributed computing the industry became a stack of horizontal layers.
Most distributed computing systems designed for public participation are on the philanthropic side, but some sites want to bring money into the picture.
The potential for cheating is increasingly worrisome as commercial distributed computing ventures that offer cash or credit to participants, like Ubero (www.ubero.net), become more commonplace.
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