Q2ADPZ* an open source, multi-platform system for distributed computing

The recent increases of computational power in desktop computer's has engendered their widespread use in organizations with large computational needs, such as universities and research centers. Several years ago, such centers would invest in special-purpose high-performance servers. Today several hundred linked pentium workstations provide CPU power comparable to the most powerful parallel computer in Norway. Another option, Distributed Computing, harnesses the idle processing cycles of networked workstations to attack computationally intensive problems that would otherwise require a supercomputer or a dedicated cluster of computers.