Home-based grid computing</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Home-based grid computing"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Home-based,grid,computing"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">24-02-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Home-based grid computing</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_mk1HYb0CV4tT7YByNMlU_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ottawa, Canada (Globe and Mail): Grid computing involves on networking the processing power of remote computers. This may now be possible between those running on the Windows XP – which means access to that power for home-based companies such as freelance translators. <br>GridIron has entered into an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to develop a grid computing product called X-Factor that would run on the Windows XP operating system. GridIron provides a commercial product for distributed grid computing that is embedded directly into software applications. The company says its product can raise the efficiency of computing resources in an enterprise network by as much as 80 or 90 per cent <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://email.globeandmail.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hmO30GuSdF0m80DD4Q0E4 " target="blank">email.globeandmail.com/cgi-bin4/DM/y/hmO30GuSdF0m80DD4Q0E4 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show