Crackpot Ideas

Timothy Prickett Morgan over at The Register has penned an article entitled, “Fake server beats real server in web test”.  The gist of the article is that VMWare has released results showing that virtual Linux servers running on VMWare’s ESX hypervisor have garnered the highest single-server performance for a 16-core machine, and significantly beat out [...]

So, I apologize upfront for the title, but I couldn’t resist. Plura Processing came to my attention through my participation in the Cloud Computing Form as someone with a genuinely interesting idea – harvesting browser time spent on websites to process compute cycles on behalf of third-parties.