Parabon releases Linux versionFairfax 24 April 2001 Parabon released the Pioneer compute engine for Linux. Available immediately, Linux users worldwide can download this free software and instantly apply their idle computing power toward non-profit research projects and gain compensation when their idle computing power is used in support of paying clients.
Supporting the Frontier distributed computing platform across the Internet
and within the enterprise, Pioneer is now available for Linux RedHat, Mandrake
and SuSe as well as Windows, which has been available since June of 2000.
Previously tested by select Linux users around the world, now all Linux users
can join the over 23,000 participants in Parabon's distributed computing
network. Whether across the Internet or behind the firewall of a corporate
intranet, companies and research organisations are able to safely, securely and
unobtrusively tap into the idle capacity of computers ranging from desktops to
high-performance workstations, and eventually mainframes. This is accomplished
by using Parabon's Frontier platform, which processes large computational
problems and breaks them down into smaller tasks that are distributed to
individual computers. After an individual computer finishes processing a task,
the encrypted results are returned to the user and new tasks are assigned.
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