- Jun 1, 2000
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Rallying around the popular SETI@Home program (in which millions of volunteers use a small app to help process radio signals), a company is taking the idea of ?distributed computing? and trying to make it a profitable business. They envision companies that do massive amounts of number crunching to spread pay-for-process screensavers around the net, through which people will be paid for using their PC?s processing power.
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/07/seti.implication.idg/index.html