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Who wants to buy a computon?

The article reports research on "grid" or "utility" computing that would be sold by the "computon", a packet of electromagnetic energy. The efficient allocation of networked computing resources needs a market mechanism to maintain order. Bernardo Huberman, a researcher at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and h...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 374; no. 8417; pp. 4 - 6
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 3/12/2005
Subjects:
Grid computing
Network computers software
Electromagnetic devices
Remote access networks
Huberman, Bernardo
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost