Outsourcing Models

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Distributed Computing uses of P2P
(http//www.trendsreport.net/software/8.html) Data
Synapse (http//www.stratvantage.com/publications/
geneerhives.pdf)
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Distributed Computing

• P2P open the door to distributed computing.
• Distributed computing refers to the sharing of
  unused computing resources
• Distributed computing is accomplish by a bank of
  PCs
• Companies can now use the power that currently
  resides on their employees desktop while they
  are not using it

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Distributed Computing
There is a tremendous amount of unused
processing power sitting idle at any given time.
The same can be said for memory storage. As
people figure out creative ways to unlock all
those computing resources, the Internet may
evolve to a higher stage.
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DataSynapse

• Founded by Peter Lee (an investment banker at J P
  Morgan)
• DataSynapses WebProc product lets customers tap
  unused CPUs to conduct complex financial and
  business computations.
• WebProc software breaks complex computing jobs
  into smaller tasks and distributes them to idle
  PCs via the Internet.

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WebProc - DataSynapse

• The solution is designed to integrate easily with
  the corporations existing network environment
• Employees never notice when WebProc is working
  because it only takes control of a desktop PC
  when the PC is idle.
• If a employee return to his desk during
  computation, Webproc immediately interrupts the
  processing task and re-routes it to another idle
  system.

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WebProc - Results
By harnessing the idle power of JP Morgan
Chases workstations, DataSynapse completed in a
matter of minutes a test calculation that
normally took eight hours overnight. According to
the company, 12 high-performance financial
applications are being optimized over two farms
of 400 workstations and 250 PCs.1 1 The
Buzz About Hive Computing Putting Peer-to-Perr
Computing work Volumen 5. p.10
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Other examples of distributed computing

• Avaki (http//www.avaki.com) has developed
  software that allows enterprises to effectively
  manage distributed systems
• Entropia (www.entropia.com) is a provider of
  distributed computer, delivering
  supercomputer-scale power at low cost to
  acelerate computationally intense applications.
  Its Entropia 3000 distributed computing platform
  lets companies create a virtual supercomputer by
  using PCs they already own. The company says that
  this increase return on investment on their
  computers
• Improc Technologies, Inc (www.improv-tech.com) is
  a software company using distributed computing
  for the management of digital services.
•  Epropose (www.epropose.com) was founded in April
  1999 to commercialize collaborative computing
  software