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05/29/2001 Archived Entry: "PCs As Supercomputer"

InternetWeek > PCs As Supercomputer > May 29, 2001
United Technologies Corp. is stealing a page from academia to make use of the countless hours that PCs sit idle across the giant corporation.

The $26 billion manufacturing conglomerate is equipping more than 100,000 Wintel computers with its own peer-to-peer software that divvies up scientific calculations and solves complex modeling problems during off hours.