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During the Grid Workshop, Dr. Wedenewski demonstrated the ZetaGrid in a demo. ZetaGrid is a software that supports grid technology. It uses the idle time of desktop PCs, estimated 90% by IBM, instead of running a screen saver.
In the demo they ran a 140 year old mathematical problem, the Riemann Hypothesis. It gives a view on the distribution of Prime numbers, the fundamentals in number theory and plays an important role in encryption.
ZetaGrid was installed first in the Böblingen Lab. Within a few months, a lot of IBM employees with their computers with different platforms connected to ZetaGrid. In the meantime, it is the biggest grid within IBM.
After publishing it in the open community, within short time it became a powerful computing grid with more than 4000 computers. A lot of universities and companies are interested in this simple framework. It is used at University Freiburg in the Biology institutes for picture processing.
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