“Popular Power today launched a Linux version of its
software, which harnesses the surplus processing power of
Internet-connected PCs.“
“Popular Power, the first company to launch commercial
distributed computing software, today announced a preview release
of its client software for Linux. Linux users can now download the
Popular Power software, which has been harnessing the surplus
processing power of Internet-connected PCs since the Windows client
became available in April. Participants donate their unused
computing resources to important research projects and will soon
have the option of selling that time to companies with large-scale
computing needs.”
“Once downloaded from www.popularpower.com, the Popular Power
software operates in the background of Linux machines. When a PC is
idle or has spare processing power, the program gets a small piece
of a large computing task from the Popular Power server and returns
results when complete. Popular Power’s general-purpose commercial
software differs from that of earlier, non-commercial efforts in
its ability to execute different types of jobs, as opposed to
single functions.”