Juno seeks subscriber super-computer

Juno Online Services, the US's third-larest ISP, hopes to salvage its free Web access plans by using its users' computers as a virtual super-computer. Charles Ardai, Juno president and CEO, says the company will begin testing a plan whereby non-paying users will be required to leave their computers on when they are not using them so that third-parties can tap the unused computational power and storage. Distributed computing has already been implemented for various projects including the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence project.

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