Parabon announces general availability of commercial Internet computing platformDallas 06 Nov 2000 Parabon Computation announced general availability of its commercial distributed computing platform, Frontier. Any organization can now benefit from distributed computing via the Internet, the company claims. Shipment of Frontier will begin on November 15, 2000.
Frontier is defining the emerging field of Internet distributed computing, which
embraces peer-to-peer (P2P) technology to harness the idle power of computers
worldwide via the Internet. Frontier is the first secure and scalable commercial
Internet computing platform available. Compared to existing supercomputers, the
massive power of Internet-connected computers is virtually unlimited. Most
notably, that variable power is delivered on demand, right to the user's
desktop. Unlike traditional supercomputing solutions, users pay only for the
compute power they use without having to incur costly acquisition expenses.
At any given time, a company may have hundreds to tens of thousands of computers
sitting idle. By aggregating the idle time of these networked machines -- from
desktop computers to large servers -- Frontier Enterprise transforms internal
computer resources into supercomputational power. Supporting Java and native
code based applications, Frontier allows companies to quickly and easily enjoy
the power of their underutilized systems today. If an organization needs compute
power beyond that of what internal resources provide, Frontier Enterprise
includes an option that instantly lets a client access Parabon's Internet
provider base, which draws on the power of thousands of Internet-connected
computers worldwide.
To support the launch of Frontier, Parabon has also announced the availability
of the Frontier software development kit (Frontier SDK). The run-local version
of the Frontier SDK and the Frontier application programming interface (API).
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