| Recent Distributed Computing News and Articles |
| Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All; an interview with a co-creator founder of Wikipedia | Technology Review | January, 2005 |
| The Biggest Grid Yet; a short overview of World Community Grid | PC Magazine | January 18, 2005 |
| How to Save the World by Doing Nothing; a short overview of World Community Grid | KRON 4 | December 22, 2004 |
| Anti spam bid canned: Lycos scraps anti-spam screensaver | vnunet.com | December 7, 2004 |
| Wikinews goes online | P2Pnet.net | December 5, 2004 |
| Lycos army shoots itself in foot?; one of the spam websites targeted by Lycos Europe's makelovenotspam.com project redirected traffic back to makelovenotspam, which could have shut down the site | ZDNet UK News | December 2, 2004 |
| Part of the Whole; an overview of distributed computing and some of the major projects | ComputorEdge | December, 2004 |
| Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers' bills | Wikinews | November 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Creators Move Into News; the creators of the Wikipedia (a free, open-source encyclopedia) have created a similar project for journalism | Wired News | November 29, 2004 |
| Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers; Lycos Europe's Make Love Not Spam project uses a screensaver for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) against known spam websites | The Register | November 26, 2004 |
| The DistComp Wattage Monitoring Project; a study of how much more electricity a computer uses to run a distributed computing project | Ready Response | November 25, 2004 |
| IBM's World Community Grid: A New SETI@home-Inspired Venture; an overview of World Community Grid, compared to BOINC | The Planetary Society | November 24, 2004 |
| Orion Puts a Cluster on Your Desktop; an overview of Orion's new 12-node and 96-node workstations | Workstation Planet | November 17, 2004 |
| Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid; an overview of IBM's new World Community Grid and its collaboration with grid.org | Yahoo! News | November 16, 2004 |
| Xbox Linux cluster; an experiment to create a Linux cluster from 8 Xboxes | engadget | November 12, 2004 |
| From Seeing to Understanding; how cluster computing is used to visualize and analyze the results of large computing projects | Science and Technology Review | November 11, 2004 |
| What's Next After the CPU?; how distributed computing is changing the role of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) in computing | ElectronicNews | October 22, 2004 |
| Getting A Grip On Grid Computing: More companies are farming out jobs to groups of networked computers | BusinessWeek | October 18, 2004 |
| The goods for grid: Broad IT knowledge, experience and an open mind are the keys to harnessing grid computing | Techworld | October 18, 2004 |
| State Employee Fired For Using State Property To Search For Aliens; an Ohio, U.S. state employee was fired for running SETI@home on a state-owned computer, even though the employee only ran it outside of business hours, when the computer was not being used | WCPO.com News (Cincinnati, Ohio) | October 8, 2004 |
| One grid to rule them all; an overview of the global computing grid being developed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, starting in 2007 | Economist.com | October 7, 2004 |
| Building The Grid; an overview of current research in wireless/mobile computing grids | TheFeature | October 5, 2004 |
| Your PC Can Contribute With Google Compute | WebProNews | September 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark | Slashdot | September 21, 2004 |
| Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing; Sun Microsystems, Inc. will rent customers supercomputing power for US$1 per CPU per hour in its Secure N1 Grid program | TechRepublic | September 21, 2004 |
| World's Largest Working Computing Grid: This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid | PhysOrg.com | September 5, 2004 |
| Reports of SETI@home Extraterrestrial Signal Highly Exaggerated; SETI@home team members say the over-hyped possible alien signal is not an alien signal and that they are not studying it further | The Planetary Society | September 2, 2004 |
| Astronomers deny ET signal report | BBC News | September 2, 2004 |
| Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away; SETI@home may have discovered an interesting radio signal | NewScientist.com | September 1, 2004 |
| Is Encryption Doomed?: Our entire information society rests on a fragile foundation that mathematicians are racing to dismantle. | Technology Review | September 1, 2004 |
| Distributive computing spreads out: UC researchers tap idle PCs to tackle scientific mysteries; an overview of the BOINC platform | The Oakland Tribune | August 30, 2004 |
| Home Computers Aid Efforts To Develop New Medications, Stanford Researcher Reports; the Folding@home project is now producing results accurate enough to be useful to pharmaceutical companies | Science Daily | August 26, 2004 |
| Research reveals flaw in storage algorithm; an overview of the discovery of a flaw in the MD5 encryption algorithm, and its implications | ARNnet | August 25, 2004 |
| Scientists from Different Fields Line Up to Join the BOINC Family; a good overview of current and upcoming projects which (will) use the BOINC platform | The Planetary Society | August 24, 2004 |
| SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken; the MD5 encryption algorithm, for which the MD5CRK project was trying to find a collision, was broken by another group of researchers | Slashdot | August 16, 2004 |
| Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing; Earth's radio signals will disappear within 100 years: alien civilizations are more likely to use lasers or some other signal besides radio | NewScientist.com | August 9, 2004 |
| Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0; the Beowulf Project is 10 years old | Wired News | August 6, 2004 |
| Multi-Beam Receiver Promises New Vistas for SETI Research; a new receiver at the Arecibo radio telescope will allow the telescope to receive signals from 7 points in the sky simultaneously, which will allow SETI research to study more of the sky more quickly and in a wider frequency band | The Planetary Society | August 4, 2004 |
| Do You See a Pattern Here?: An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoit Mandelbrot, father of the fractal; Mandelbrot suggests using distributed computing to search "for patterns in financial markets." | Wired News | August, 2004 |
| Sheep in Shining Armor: Let your PC join an army of several million others and save the world--while you sleep; a current overview of distributed computing projects, and of grid.org and Electric Sheep in particular | Discover Magazine | August, 2004 |
| NIST Proposes Abandoning DES | Slashdot | July 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles | Slashdot | July 7, 2004 |
| Public to help scientists predict the real climate of The Day After Tomorrow; will study the climate science behind the movie The Day After Tomorrow | climateprediction.net | June 22, 2004 |
| Mersenne.org Project Discovers New Largest Known Prime Number, 224,036,583 - 1: Project Leaders Believe $100,000 Award Within Reach | mersenne.org | May 28, 2004 |
| Mass Grid Computing Around the Corner?; a discussion about what is needed to encourage mass adoption of grid and distributed computing | Slashdot | May 18, 2004 |
| Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians: Rescoring the Reobservations; an update on SETI@home's analysis of its 2003 reobserved candidate signals | The Planetary Society | May 17, 2004 |
| Grid watch: GGF and grid security; an overview of the Global Grid Forum's work on grid security | IBM | May 13, 2004 |
| Internet computing tackles Malaria; Find-a-Drug's new project to find an anti-Malaria drug | Find-a-Drug | May 10, 2004 |
| NETI to Examine Net's Strengths; an overview of the NETI@home project | Wired News | April 27, 2004 |
| Mathematicians From Around the World Collaborate to Solve Latest RSA Factoring Challenge | RSA Security | April 27, 2004 |
| Scientists develop sophisticated new simulation method for protein folding; Folding@home has successfully modeled the role of water molecules in protein folding for the first time | Stanford University | April 23, 2004 |
| Tapping the Matrix, Part 1; an excellent overview of distributed computing, and technical information about implementing it | O'Reilly openp2p.com | April 16, 2004 |
| Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles?; a short-term project is re-running a simulation of 29 billion photons in a room, which produced an image for SIGGRAPH 94; the new image should be cleaner and sharper because computers are 3,000 times more powerful than they were in 1994 | Slashdot | April 13, 2004 |
| Computing Power to the People; in-depth coverage of the results of the Flashmob I project | Wired News | April 5, 2004 |
| The God Particle and the Grid; an overview of CERN's upcoming grid project to look for the Higgs boson particle | Wired | April, 2004 |
| California Techies Try to Make Supercomputer; the results of the Flashmob I project | WJLA - ABC 7 News | April 3, 2004 |
| General Relativity @ Home!; news about the upcoming Einstein@Home project | SciScoop | April 1, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| Internet computing finds more cancer growth inhibitors: Find-a-Drug "has found more molecules which inhibit the growth of cancer cells" | Find-a-Drug | March 22, 2004 |
| Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation Funds Next Phase in Construction of the World's Newest Radio Telescope Array | SETI Institute | March 18, 2004 |
| Hey, Gang, Let's Make Our Own Supercomputer; on April 3, 2004, students in Patrick Miller's do-it-yourself supercomputing graduate course will assemble the first "flash mob supercomputer" in the University of San Francisco gym | New York Times | February 23, 2004 |
| Michael Hart: changing the world through e-books; an overview of Michael Gutenberg and his project, Project Gutenberg | Edition Actu | February 15, 2004 |
| Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM; the results of ChessBrain's world-record attemp game | Slashdot | February 3, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles | Slashdot | February 2, 2004 |
| Harnessing Distributed Computing Power using Open Source Tools; a white paper on using open-source tools to create distributed computing projects | ChessBrain.NET | February 1, 2004 |
| Do plants act like computers?; plants may regulate their "breathing" using a form of distributed computation | Nature | January 21, 2004 |
| The future of computing: The next big thing?; a comparison of utility and grid computing | The Economist | January 15, 2004 |
| Company gives equipment to SETI's grid computing project; Sun Microsystems donated hardware to the BOINC project to advance grid computing | Silicon Valley Biz Ink | January 2, 2004 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams: An Explanation of the Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver | O'Reilly openp2p.com | December 22, 2003 |
| Software shares out spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC project, which will go live in January | New Scientist | December 21, 2003 |
| Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC; Sun Microsystems is donating computer servers to, and providing funding for, the BOINC project; also see Sun's press release | The Register | December 17, 2003 |
| RSA-576 Factored; this number was factored, but not by a public distributed computing project | MathWorld News | December 5, 2003 |
| Largest prime number ever is found; an overview of the GIMPS project's discovery of the 40th known Mersenne prime | New Scientist | December 3, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook | Slashdot | October 16, 2003 |
| The Cost of Distributed Client Computing?; a discussion of the costs (power consumption, hardware failure, etc.) of distributed computing for volunteers | Slashdot | October 15, 2003 |
| Casting a wider, deeper Net; an overview of the PlanetLab grid computing project | EE Times | October 13, 2003 |
| Huge computing power goes online; the private computing Grid which will process data from CERN's upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator project was just turned on | BBC News | September 30, 2003 |
| New and Improved SETI@home will Form the Backbone of Distributed Computing Network | The Planetary Society | September 25, 2003 |
| Huge Climate Experiment Starts Friday - All Welcome; an announcement of the September 12, 2003, start of the climateprediction.net project | Yahoo! News | September 11, 2003 |
| Getting More From a PC's Spare Time; an overview of distributed computing and particularly the BOINC platform | New York Times | September 11, 2003 |
| Circuit design evolving in distributed digital world; an overview of the Distributed Hardware Evolution Project | New Scientist | July 31, 2003 |
| SETI@home Update, July 18, 2003: Analyzing the Reobservations; an update on the processing of the reobserved candidate signals from SETI@home | The Planetary Society | July 18, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Coming Of Age: grid computing over the Internet is where the Internet was in 1994 | Slashdot | July 15, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing Economics; a study of the costs of grid and distributed computing | IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing Newsletter | July 12, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday | Slashdot | July 4, 2003 |
| How Practical Is Grid Computing?: Unless you are comfortable manipulating source code, not very.; grid computing from a CIO's perspective | CIO Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
| Find-A-Drug Attacks Aids With Grid Technology | GRIDtoday | July 1, 2003 |
| Donating CPU cycles for the greater good; an overview of distributed and grid computing (this article was one of a series on the top 20 trends in technology) | PC Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
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