Distributed Grids Tap into Thousands of PCs and Macs with Internet

question 131

True/False

Distributed grids tap into thousands of PCs and Macs with Internet connections whose owners rent their computer's idle hours to a grid processing task._________________________

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S-Type Corporations

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Treasurer

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