Plura

Plura has raised $750,000 in seed money from Creeris Ventures.

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

Through 50,000 Plura nodes, 80legs has access to between 5 and 10 gigabits per second of capacity, which is nothing to sneeze at.

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

I also met with Plura Processing, which is taking the idea of CPU harvesting andbuilding a web-crawling platform on top of the resulting grid.

Houston’s Tech Scene Is Worth the Trip 2009

Computational Crawling, a sister company that builds applications such as 80legs to run on the Plura platform has raised $400,000 from Creeris.

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

We talked about the product built on top of Plura, an application called 80legs, which is basically a web crawling service for hire. 80legs, which is still in private beta, provides access to data for search sites, video indexing sites and anything else that wants to scour the web for data.

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

However, because of the looming worries about bandwidth caps and metered broadband, Brad Wilson, CEO of Plura, says the company has had to implement several safeguards to keep the users who provide the nodes from hitting a cap.

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

Last month when I was in Houston, I met Shion Deysarkar, chief marketing officer of Plura Processing, a company that harnesses the [...]

Houston’s Tech Scene Is Worth the Trip 2009

Back then it was Abbey Road, Plura and Rolling Stones on the gramophone 'til the day I moved away from home

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Last month when I was in Houston, I met Shion Deysarkar, chief marketing officer of Plura Processing, a company that harnesses the CPU cycles and bandwidth of participating gamers (it pays them up to $2.60 a month for use of 100 percent of the CPU cycles).

80legs Cares About Your Bandwidth Cap 2009

Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine, quam e ratione* (* Men do more from habit than from reason.), you dirty little rip.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010