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I looked at the Plura website, and it seems they mostly target institutions (Schools and such) that want to make money off of their spare cycles. So it's not l

by jibiki 18y ago

I looked at the Plura website, and it seems they mostly target institutions (Schools and such) that want to make money off of their spare cycles. So it's not like they're directly installing stuff on the machines of unwitting fools; they pay for processor time. EDIT: wow, never mind, I totally misunderstood their model: http://www.pluraprocessing.com/technology.html http://www.pluraprocessing.com/technology.html

slackenerny 18y ago
Inspiring. Reminds me of old ways in doing cloud computing: EC2 : http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/ S3 : http://isec.pl/papers/juggling_with_packets.txt http://isec.pl/papers/juggling_with_packets.txt ; )
- stcredzero 18y ago
  Their datacenter costs might be lower. Hopefully, they can pass that on to their customers.