ADVISORY/Experts Available to Discuss Using Home Computers to Research Anthrax and Other Diseases.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002 TOPIC: According to a story by the Associated Press, any personal computer user can use their machine's extra processing power to help cure anthrax. The "distributed computing" effort will be launched Thursday and will allow participants to download a free screen-saver that uses a computer's excess capacity to perform computations for an Oxford University-based anthrax project. The project is based on the premise that the average personal computer uses between 13% and 18% of its processing power at any given time, and it could give researchers more computational power than the world's 10 best supercomputers combined, the story said. It is being sponsored by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Larry Smarr Larry Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure. He received both his BA and MS at the University of Missouri–Columbia and received a Ph.D. is internationally known for his role in creating the modern information infrastructure (i.e. the Internet). He is also an accomplished astrophysicist and supercomputer expert and directs the $300 million California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology -- Cal-(IT)2 -- at UC San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . Previously, he was the founding director of both the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (body, World-Wide Web) National Center for Supercomputing Applications - (NCSA) The birthplace of the first version of the Mosaic World-Wide Web browser. Address: Urbana, IL, USA. http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/. (NCSA (1) (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana-Champaign, IL, www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) A high-performance computing facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ) at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to:
Prof. Jon Weissman is a computer scientist at the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. . His expertise includes Software design for building robust, high performance distributed systems. 612/626-0044 Pete Manca is Vice President of Software Engineering at Egenera, Inc. Prior to Egenera, he was vice president of engineering at Hitachi Computer Products America with responsibility for development of the world's then-fastest commercial supercomputer. At Encore Computer, he helped build the first commercial system based on MACH technology. He holds Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester Polytechnic Institute - (WPI) A well-regarded, small engineering college. Address: Worcester, MA, USA. . A champion of open standards, Manca has participated in the X/Open and Open Software Foundation (OSF See Open Group. OSF - Open Software Foundation ) consortiums. PR: Nancy Herzog, 508/858-2605;nherzog@egenera.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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