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NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

new version 6.4.5 of BOINC can use NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA technology to perform some kinds of distributed computing research 2 to 20 times faster

Distributed security cracking

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

Will the future of security cracking lie in 'cloud computing'?

IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project

Emissions: Where do you draw the line?

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

are the potential energy-saving results from The Clean Energy Project worth the amount of energy used by computers participating in the project?

IBM rice project works on new strains

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project

World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of World Community Grid

We will find aliens 'by 2025'

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

SETI@home should help us find alien radio signals sooner

IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the new The Clean Energy Project

IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of The Clean Energy Project

University of Washington biochemist David Baker to receive 2008 Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for discoveries in protein folding

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

Fight AIDS at home, via unused computer time

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008, the World Community Grid is sponsoring a month-long challenge to provide more computing resources to AIDS researchers via FightAIDS@home

Virtual Telescopes Tweaked

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Internet-based virtual telescopes and distributed computing projects related to Astronomy

How curing boredom can boost research

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of distributed human projects

The Energy Impact of Grid Computing

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 MST

(registration required to view article)

Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network

Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Foldit

Catching quakes with laptops

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network

ET may be out there, but would he talk to us?

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the search for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and SETI@home

Reaching for the Exa-scale, by BOINC-ing

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

using BOINC and Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) we will reach the 1 ExaFLOPS (1,000 PetaFLOPS) computing milestone soon

Volunteer computing helps track malaria

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of malariacontrol.net and its first published results

CERN starts the Peta-Grid

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

CERN officially started the World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) on Friday, October 3, 2008

Laptop device catches notice of seismologists in hunt for earthquake data

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network

World's biggest computing grid launched

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of CERN's World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which was officially started on October 3, 2008

Supercomputers Fight Thromboses

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Russian scientists used distributed computing to test 6,000 potential drug molecules over 18 months and found potential molecules which "may become the basis for new effective therapy against thromboses [blood clots] and components for blood substitutes"

Txteagle pays mobile phone users for short tasks

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

upcoming for-pay distributed human project txteagle will pay mobile phone users in developing countries to perform short tasks such as sending text messages or translating words

No excuse for under-utilization: Clemson back-fills with BOINC

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Clemson University's School of Computing is contributing its spare computing power to the World Community Grid through BOINC

UCLA finds first Mersenne Prime over 10 million digits

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Edson Smith's discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digits using UCLA's computers

13 Million-Digit Prime Number Shows Benefits of Distributed Computing Projects

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of GIMPS' discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digits

What can you do with a 12-million-digit prime number?

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the point of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s challenge to find a large Mersenne prime number is not just to find a large number but to prove that a "big real-world problem can benefit from everyday people volunteering their computers for a distributed-computing project"

Quake Catcher Network: SETI@home Spinoff Tracks Earth-Shakers

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network

Shake it all about

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

How to use your laptop to locate an earthquake; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network

Grids meet aliens and androids

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the 4th annual Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, which met in Grenoble, France, on September 11-12, discussed the future of BOINC and new directions for volunteer computing including new Distributed Thinking platforms like Bossa and BOLT

Big prime nets big profit

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveries

Life starts now

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Sony has launched a "Life with Playstation" service on the PlayStation3 console. The service provides "worldwide news, weather and other information," and "a more advanced simulation of protein folding for Folding@home."

Sony launches Life with PlayStation

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Sony's new Life with Playstation service for Playstation3

Two largest known prime numbers discovered just two weeks apart, one qualifies for $100k prize

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveries

Big and bigger: New prime numbers claim top two spots

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

GIMPS discovered its 45th and 46th known Mersenne prime numbers on August 23, 2008 and September 6, 2008. These are the largest Mersenne primes known. The first number has almost 13 million digits and the second has 11.2 million digits.

The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Your idle computer can save the world

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid

How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information

NYU, American Museum of Natural History receive $1.6 million NSF grant

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

New York University and the American Museum of Natural History have received a grant to study "plant evolution and to create a public database that provides information about the structure and inferred function of proteins found in two plant genomes." They will create a project for World Community Grid.

Join the crowd: Why do multinationals use amateurs to solve scientific and technical problems?

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of crowdsourcing

Mega Grid for Mega Science

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of grid computing and the LHC Computing Grid (LCG)

Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T.

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SETI@home's new Astropulse project

Build a Better Quake Catcher

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

Humans can; computers can't

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of reCAPTCHA and some other Distributed Human projects which use human games to do useful work that computers can't do

If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been Enlisted as a Human Scanner

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of reCAPTCHA

51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points per day

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a 51-card NVIDIA-based computing rig built by nitteo of the overclock.net forums will generate an estimated 265,200 folding points per day for Folding@home

Link of the Week - LHC at home

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of LHC@home

The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

how cloud computing differs from distributed and grid computing

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Hadoop: When grownups do open source; an overview of the Hadoop open-source library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce framework

IBM grant to help UTMB�s global computing project discover dengue drugs

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

IBM has awarded the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston a grant to install a high-performance IBM storage system to assist its global computing effort [run on IBM's Global Computing Grid] to find drugs for reemerging infectious diseases like dengue, West Nile and hepatitis C.

Could �Crowd-Sourcing� be the next big thing?

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

NVIDIA Dramatically Acclerates the Search for a Cure

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of NVIDIA's support for Folding@home's new GPU client

SETI@Home Adds New Search Method

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SETI@home's Astropulse project

Recherche: un logiciel pour mod�liser les prairies!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Virtual Prairie. The article is written in French.

Cure Diseases and Have Fun Competing at the Same Time

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Folding@home

Playing the Science Game

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Foldit

Beyond Graphics--The Present and Future of GP-GPU

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home's new GPU client is an average of four times faster than the PS3 client and 40 times faster than the PC client

The brains behind the operation

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

How do you top the invention of the world wide web? Bobbie Johnson introduces Cern's plan for the next leap forward in computer technology: the grid; an overview of distributed and grid computing

Using Personal Computers to Solve Humanitarian Problems

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid

An armchair astronomer discovers something very odd

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Galaxy Zoo's recent discovery

Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a rebuttal to the "The End of Theory" article

Screensavers help University cancer research

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Cels@Home

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

in The Petabyte Age we can use massive amounts of data and processing, instead of scientific theories, to study the world around us

Grid computing boosts cancer research

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview and update of Cels@Home

Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part I)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

astronomers around the world are taking interest in the Voorwerp object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant

Stanford releases folding client for Nvidia GPUs

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home can now run on Nvidia GPUs (i.e. graphics cards)

Scientists tap gaming's power

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

You, too, can help figure out proteins; an overview of Foldit

Join the search while you sleep

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of SETI@home

Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Kaspersky Labs wants to create a new project to try to crack the Gpcode blackmail virus. This virus encrypts a user's files with a 1024-bit RSA key and tells the user to pay a blackmailer for the decryptor. Cracking the key would require the work of 15 million computers running for one year.

SETI Researchers Gather At ASTRON For Search Beyond Beyond

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI

New Telescope to Hunt for Aliens

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI

LOFAR telescope used in search for extraterrestrial life?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope could be used for SETI

IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Folding Proteins: Someone's Idea of Having Fun?

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Folding@home and Foldit

Video searching uses people power

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the new They Work for You project asks volunteers to watch short video clips from Parliament sessions and to match them to official transcripts of the sessions, making the full videos of the sessions searchable

Computers crunch possible cures for cancer

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

computers in the student computer lab at Austin Community College are participating in the World Community Grid

DC.Ars: running the POEM@Home gauntlet

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of POEM@HOME and its participation in CASP8, and the DC.Ars team's participation in an informal contest for POEM@HOME during June, 2008

IBM turns unused computers into grid to solve (some of) the world's problems

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a good overview of the World Community Grid

GTA4: Enabler of Life Sciences Research?

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

as more computer gamers buy PlayStation3 consoles to play Grand Theft Auto 4, more PS3s become available for use by distributed computing projects such as Folding@home

Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Fedora Nightlife is "a new project for creating a Fedora (Linux) community grid. People will be able to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power."

First WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins, ready for beta

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins

IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Hello, Einstein residence? Why yes, he's home!

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Einstein@Home

Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Looking For Mars Polar Lander project

Gaming for Medical Research

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Foldit

Your computers may help save climate

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of climateprediction.net

I'm Donating My Unused Computer Processing Power to Science

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a user's perspective of distributed computing projects

Solve Puzzles for Science!

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Foldit

Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game

WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the 30 most-promising drug candidates from the WISDOM grid project were tested in a lab and all were effective. Now they are being tested in living cultures of the malaria parasite.

Seismograph in your lap

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of G�mez Performance Network Peer

UK computing Grid "warming up for world's largest experiment"

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an update of the U.K.'s GridPP computing grid and its readiness for data from the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project

Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview and beta test of Folding@home's new "GPU2" client. This client supports all Radeon HD 2400 and above cards, up to the Radeon HD 3870 X2.

First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

(login required)

Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries

Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

money and computing power cannot solve every problem

The age of the Grid

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

when CERN turns on the Large Hadron Collider later this summer it will also turn on The Grid, a data communications network 10,000 times faster than the Internet

Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Money, infectious disease and Where's George?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

mathematical models derived from the Where's George?project, which shows the geographic spread of money, can also show the geographic spread of infectious disease

Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@Home

Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Building Enzymes from Scratch

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Rosetta@home was used to create two enzymes not found in nature

Distributed computing and the Singularity

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

distributed computing will accelerate humanity's path toward the Singularity, "a hypothesized point in the future where unprecedented acceleration of technological progress will trigger colossal change," predicted by Ray Kurzweil

How low can a Sudoku go?

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Sudoku project

OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

"spimes," objects which record where and when they are and other data, could be used in distributed computing networks to build maps of carbon dioxide levels and other climate data

Project BudBurst wants you to track nature's changes for database

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

Project Budburst, a "citizen science" project which began in February, 2008, asks volunteers to record the dates at which various plant species bloom or bud in an effort to track climate changes possibly caused by global warming

Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of BOINC and volunteer computing

Idle computers are kept busy scanning the skies

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of SETI@home and BOINC

SETI's Other Coup

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

We might not have yet found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but SETI has more than proven its worth with its success in distributed computing

Your computer can help science with BOINC

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of BOINC and distributed computing projects

Evolving towards the future of science

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

genetic algorithms and grid computing; genetic algorithms are being used to optimize the scheduling of computing jobs for computing grids

Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

a history of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG)

Stardust@Home Team Extracts First Particle Track from Stardust Collector

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

How much is your wired world costing you?

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

an experiment to see how much electricity a PlayStation3 uses when it performs work for a distributed computing project such as Folding@home

Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

one million Sony PlaySation 3 owners have signed up for Folding@home

Sifting through image library will help cancer fight

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

IBM, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University are creating a project (an extension of the Help Defeat Cancer project) to use advanced computer and imaging technologies to compare cancerous tissues and cell and radiology studies to "make more accurate cancer prognoses, more personalized treatment planning and eventually to discover and develop new cancer drugs."

Near Earth Objects: We Can't Beat the Odds Forever

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

thoughts about the risks to Earth from near-Earth objects, and news that orbit@home has been funded by NASA and active development of the project will begin next month

The real antivirus programs

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of disease-fighting distributed computing projects such as D2OL

Opinion - Avalanche warning: the new challenges of the data grid

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

how (and for how long) can we store all of the data generated by distributed and grid computing projects?

A Warm Welcome for Android

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

the GridGain project will turn Google Android platform-based cell phones into a computing grid

Speaking of Science: The science of sleeping computers

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed computing projects

Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

seven new receivers installed on the Arecibo radio telescope will provide 500 times more data for SETI@home

Wikia Search Open For Developers On Monday: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Calls For Transparency And Privacy In Engine

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

Wikia Search's open-source codebase was opened to external developers on January 7, 2008