Linux for distributed computing is here by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- It's called CHAOS, and it takes unused cycles from any PC on your network, then harnesses them for use by an application which needs them.It's a good example of a point made by several readers here the last few days, that adding new features to Linux simply makes Linux better, not more unwieldy. CHAOS uses [...]
See also Wired News : "Chaos received a lot of attention, and not just from the open-source community. "We were serving up to 10 gigs a month -- and Chaos is only a 6-MB image," says Latter. "We saw downloads not just from universities and research facilities, but we got government, military and even intelligence hits from all around the world.""
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