Applied MetaComputing Participates in First Peer-to-Peer Working Group Meeting Hosted by the Intel Corporation.Business Editors/High Tech Writers CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 PtP Gains Momentum with over 300 Attendees at Kick-off Meeting in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. Applied MetaComputing, the world's leading supplier of Grid operating software, helped kick off the first ever Peer-to-Peer (PtP) Working Group Meeting at the San Jose Hyatt in San Jose, California on October 12, 2000. Over 300 individuals ranging from system integrators and application developers to independent software vendors and venture capitalists attended the first ever PtP Working Group Meeting to participate in establishing new standards in peer-to-peer computing. "We are very excited by the diverse mix of attendees that participated in the first ever PtP Working Group," stated Bob Knighten, PtP Evangelist at the Intel Corporation. "It is great to see such a high level of interest and commitment from the high tech and business communities alike." Excitement around PtP has been building since Intel first announced the formation of the Peer-to-Peer Working Group last August at the Intel Developer Forum Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is a twice yearly gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997. There is usually a Spring IDF and a Fall IDF. . "As someone who has spent a over a decade building advanced PtP/Distributed Computing platforms and applications for the Defense Department, NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. , the Department of Energy and others, it was wonderful to see such a large and diverse group focusing on what I have always believed to be the next frontier of computing," stated Andrew Grimshaw, Applied MetaComputing's President and Founder. "Peer-to-peer computing allows users to harness all networked resources, such as storage, data, applications and processing power, in ways that were previously impossible." The founding members of the PtP Working Group announced last August by Intel include Applied MetaComputing, CenterSpan, Distributed Science, Dotcast, Enfish Technology, Engenia Software, Entropia, Flycode (formerly AppleSoup), Groove Networks, Hewlett Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Kalepa, MangoSoft, Popular Power, Static, United Devices, Uprizer and Vtel. For more information on the Peer-to-Peer Working Group, please visit www.peer-to-peerwg.org . About Applied MetaComputing, Inc Applied MetaComputing is the world's leading supplier of Grid operating software. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. offers the Legion Professional family of products, along with tools, consulting, education and support services to companies around the world. Legion is the only commercially available platform that can enable all forms of peer-to-peer and distributed computing applications. Legion runs on all major operating systems and platforms giving users, organizations, and application developers the ability to fully capitalize on the vast array of networked resources without the need to deal with or understand the complexities of the underlying networked world. Legion was first developed at the University of Virginia with NSF, DOE, DOD (1) (Dial On Demand) A feature that allows a device to automatically dial a telephone number. For example, an ISDN router with dial on demand will automatically dial up the ISP when it senses IP traffic destined for the Internet. , and NASA support and in collaboration with NPACI NPACI National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and NAVO NAVO Naval Oceanographic Office NAVO Noord Atlantische Verdrags Organisatie (de Nederlandstalige NATO) MSRC MSRC Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC Major Shared-Resource Center (Army Research Laboratory) MSRC Marine Sciences Research Center MSRC Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee MSRC Marine Spill Response Corporation . To learn more about Applied MetaComputing or Legion, please visit us at our web site www.appliedmeta.com . |
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