May 28, 2004
Speeding Up the Internet by Donating Processing Power
Computer users can now donate some of their machines' processing power to help make the Internet faster.
A new computer program that runs in the background on a user's machine analyzes Internet traffic and beams reports to researchers. The information gathered, they say, could help them improve the speed and reliability of the Internet.
The program, called NETI@home, is led by George F. Riley, an assistant professor of computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology,
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