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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
NEW RECORD SET IN DISTRIBUTED
COMPUTING
Y3K Secure Enterprise Software Inc, an end-to-end unified communications
and
technologies company serving the small to medium sized business market,
announced the completion of the new world record in Distributed Computing.
Chess and computing aficionados, utilizing the power of 2,070 computers from
56 countries around the world, joined forces to battle Danish Grandmaster
Peter Heine Nielsen in an exciting game of chess. The Distributed Computing
Foundation's "Man vs. Machines Challenge," presented by Y3K, set a new
Guinness world record in distributed computing. This new record more than
doubles the number of machines seen in previous contests between distributed
computers and a single human opponent.
The opponent, top Danish Grandmaster Peter Heine Nielsen, had to do battle
with this mighty array of computing power. He proved to be up to the task,
controlling the flow of most of the game. His final assault was almost enough
to bring the computers down, but they managed to survive and the game ended in
a draw.
The ChessBrain project, headed by Y3K programming consultant Carlos
Justiniano, provided the software that utilized the power of Distributed
Computing to unite computers around the world by sharing their unused
processing power. Y3K's ICS was an integral part of connecting the computers,
and allowing all of the participants to securely communicate in real-time
during the five hour long match. The teamwork displayed by the project showed
the potential of distributed computing for everything from scientific research
to connecting the business world in a secure fashion. The event was sponsored
by the Distributed Computing Foundation. The foundation promotes
investigations of the potential of the distributed computing technology.
The awards will be made official in a few days by Guinness and the
ChessBrain
Project.
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