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US 2019/0173746 A1Published application
Method of Creating Distributed Computer Processing Network
OwnerAdam Winterinventor
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Abstract
A method for creating a network of computational devices which are installed in computers. The computers are distributed to customers who are aware of the devices and consent to the arrangement. The computers are installed in the homes or places of business of the customers, thereby creating a distributed processing network which does not require any special dedicated space of its own nor any special means of providing electricity to it.
Claims1
A method of creating a distributed computer processing network, comprised of repetitions of the following:
- Connection of a computational hardware device to the motherboard of a computer
- said connection is to the PCIe port on said motherboard
- said device has greater than 100 parallel processing cores.
- Programming of the operating system on said computer to have separate user accounts for the administrator and the customer
- Installation of said computer in a customer's home, by an administrator
- said hardware is not utilized by the customer for any of the customer's own purposes
- other hardware in said computer is used by customer as customer's personal computer.
- Launching of software on said computer through administrator's user account
- said computer contains software used to control said hardware
- said software is not accessed or used by the customer.
- Connection between said computer and dedicated remote server is established over the internet
- said software retrieves work orders to be done by said hardware from associated server over the internet
- said software also reports results of said work to said server
- said server is dedicated to giving work to the device and accepting results from the work
- said administrator is also the administrator of said server.
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