Steve Tanner joins Distributed Science's advisory boardPasadena 10 January 2001 Distributed Science, Inc. announced that Steve Tanner, creator of Boeing's Advanced Computing Group and Visualization Laboratory, joined the company's advisory board.
Currently working as Senior Research Associate with the Information Technology
and Systems Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Mr. Tanner is
recognized as an authority in the world of computing. His work has been featured
in AI Magazine, workshops at SIGGRAPH, AAAI, and cover stories in Design News,
as well as exhibits at the Smithsonian. Boeing awarded him the title of
Associate Technical Fellow, reserved for the top 2% of its engineers, scientists
and developers.
"Adding my experience in the definition of product requirements, market
segments, and comprehensive architectures for large-scale efforts such as the
International Space Station or airplane development will assist Distributed
Science in meeting the needs of Fortune 500 customers," says Mr. Tanner. "By
creating a new approach to parallel distributed computing, an entirely new field
of research and development opens up."
Operating the ProcessTree network with over 150,000 computers worldwide,
Distributed Science, Inc. is leading the emerging distributed processing
industry. Using idle resources from computers on either a customer's corporate
Intranet or supplied by individuals around the globe on the ProcessTree
network, Distributed Science's Harvester software provides the highly scaleable
infrastructure for a variety of quality of service applications and enables
cost-efficient processing of computing jobs at levels exceeding the capacity of
traditional supercomputers.
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