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What other problems would benefit from easy access to lots of distributed CPU cycles?

3D Rendering and Physics simulations come immediately to mind.

A graphic-arts chum of mine is really hyper about cycle sales - it will allow him to produce broadcast-quality commercials on a project-by-project basis without a huge initial hardware upgrade investment. Is anyone working on a Java libarary/demo/whatnot that allows plug-in algorithms, work completion 'fetch next batch' code, and some rudimentary authentication scheme? If not, I may tinker with this - if so, I'd like to chat :) -- Jay Campbell edge@got.net - Operations Manager -=-=-=-=-=-=- Sense Networking, Santa Cruz Node Jay@Campbell.net got.net? PGP MIT KeyID 0xACAE1A89 "On the Information Superhighway, I'm the guy behind you in this morning's traffic jam leaning on his horn."