Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Rwjr Eakas ast 109 Rort Garry Ca ii 942825 1 Winnipeg free press March 2001 b3 editor Julian Rachey 6977235 technology captivating concept Idle works has founded a business on its distributed computing but the company int the Only one to be captivated by the which has various the concept of distributed computing has been around for used primarily on clusters of machines running the linux operating often in academic in the internet the idea has been discovered anew for biotech research and mathematical the search for extraterrestrial intelligence which is based at the University of California at relies on computer users donating their machines Idle time to the quest for extraterrestrial participants download the Seti screensaver software and their pcs use that Idle screen Saver time to run the Seti which analyses radio signals for extraterrestrial Seti now has Over half a million join the search for it at b researchers at Stanford University Are applying the distributed computing concept to solve the computational problem of protein folding in the human the project has about Partick whose pcs Are calculating How proteins take on their specific companies have been formed to explore commercial Applina including movie special effects and economic by setting up networks of internet earlier this Juno online services an american internet service announced it May require All users of its free internet service to leave their computers allowing Juno to use that Idle computing there is a journal of parallel and distributed published monthly by academic press in san Reyes from Bagnall and Cabrera see medium to Large companies As Ideal harnessing available Power Winnipeg firms software taps into computers sitting Idle by Linda Rosborough for fledgling Idle works there will be Good news and bad news if the com Pany is successful with its software the Good news is obvious Fortune and All the stuff of entrepreneurial the bad news is that Idle works Confounder deck Reyes has already decided How the staff would Cele brate an initial Public and its con Ive always wanted to run with the i told myself that would be Cool it was my Reyes said mat Tero factly in Idle works sunny office space in the Exchange thirty or 40 years Down the Road till be a great Story the Day after we went Public we flew to Spain and ran with the in the before Reyes and coworkers Brian Harold Cabrera and Trent Heintz get anywhere near Pamplona and mad they have some work to do in Selling and marketing their called the software harnesses the computing Power of Idle office computers to do Large processing projects like invoicing that might otherwise be a computer engineering was working late at ism one night when it struck him that the full potential of Idle computers in the office in so Many other offices want being he ended up writing an award winning thesis on the prac known As distributed Linda Rosbor Gujri in distributed data Are broken Down into smaller chunks and distributed to different computers for the results Are then recombined by the Central there not utilizing All the cup computer processing unit Power they Cabrera referring to offices with dozens of computer Termi nals that Are often used for Little More than email and word if you pull All that you can have a he asked an ism to proofread his thesis in although Cabrera was looking for some grammar and spelling Bagnall saw the business Case for cabreras it just seemed like it would be something that could be really recalled who was aware of the which uses thou Sands of internet connected pcs to help in the search for extraterrestrial but it was Reyes an entrepreneur at heart if not by training who pushed the friends into starting a we All knew it was a Good Reyes my big fear was not acting on it and then two years later sitting in a bar and hearing that its the next big Cabrera was confident in his idea and but he was sceptical about embarking on an entrepreneurial at the i was thinking it was All Little did i deck is the Guy who takes an idea and runs with it All the Cabrera next thing i deck has us an business smarts Bagnall and Cabrera set up the Idle works office last who knew Reyes from a previous Industry joined in november to work As a software confident in their technical the friends knew they needed some business late last Ben a Veteran businessman with 30 years of signed on As Idle works president and turns presence lends the company some maturity and that when we talk to we have a More senior Cabrera were building the management team to keep the Tuan said he is convinced distributed computing is the emerging technology of the decade and thinks the disco product could be one of the Best in the most the founders have drive and dedication to their said who also runs co tech a management and consulting in addition to their technical they have a very High Energy the partners Are seeking investment and Are in talks with several companies who might be willing to Beta test the disco they consider medium sized and Large companies to be their Ideal weve got the technology fairly Cabrera now we just need to test it As for the Heintz figures they have a pretty Good employee screening tool in Thall be the Way we recruit future people if they can run with the he Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press o youve made your first now what hold on to that at Goodman private wealth management we help canadians with assets of Over million with All their financial and estate planning with our focus on the preservation and tax efficient Long term growth of your Well make sure that your first two million is just your first two Call Val at 2042546480 or email at for wealth Man a e m e n t ;