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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Steven L. Armentrout, Reston, VA (US);
James O'Connor, Oakton, VA (US);
James Gannon, Fairfax, VA (US);
Brian Sletten, Arlington, VA (US);
Sean Cier, Fairfax, VA (US);
Sarah Carlson, Fairfax, VA (US);
Antony Davies, Oakton, VA (US);
Jonathan Davis, Washington, DC (US);
Greg DuPertuis, Manassas, VA (US);
Scott McLoughlin, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A distributed computing platform using the idle computational processing power of a plurality of provider computers is disclosed. At least one networked server collects tasks from client computers, schedules and distributes the tasks to networked provider computers, and collects and returns results to client computers. A client API forms tasks and collects results. A compute engine operates on the provider computers to communicate with the server and execute tasks using idle computational power.