There is a reference to Piper in the Portuguese magazine Tecnologia. Here is a Babelfish translation of the paragraph where Piper is mentioned: ``Infinite possibilities? On the other hand distributed computation has other sources without lucrative ends, to the example of Seti at home. Science will be able to benefit enormously in the form of interactive computational work where technician informaticists and scientists can work together using networks of program `clients' appropriate to speed up studies and scientific discoveries that demand a highly cooperative effort. It is the case of the Piper network. And the possibilities of this `method' in the branches of science and technology are almost infinite...'' http://www.digito.pt/tecnologia/artigos/tecart73.html Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --