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Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales "has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work"

The greatest discovery of all time

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 MDT

the current state of searches for extraterrestrial radio signals, and speculation of what the discovery of those signals would mean to humanity

Cracked: the puzzle of protein origami

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of current progress in protein folding studies, and a mention of Rosetta@home

Computers Make Big Strides in Predicting Protein Structure

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:00:00 MDT

the current state of computer-predicted protein-folding and a mention of the new Rosetta@home project

Searching For Gravity @ Home

Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Einstein@Home.

Gravitationswellen im Heimcomputer: Einstein@home

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Einstein@Home. The article is written in German and is in PDF format.

Grid computing gets NSF grant boost

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

the U.S.'s National Science Foundation will award a US$150 million grant to expand TeraGrid computing, and Britain's Department of Trade and Industry will spend US$1.8 million to promote commercial grid computing

Sun plugs software into the grid

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Sun Microsystems' IT department has begun running some enterprise resource planning applications on the Sun Grid, which will be available for customers to use starting in September, 2005

IBM calls for more World Community Grid members

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

ANALYSIS: A look at encryption, from then to now

Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of encryption practices since the 1970s and how projects like distributed.net have accelerated the need for better encryption

Distributed Computing in the Modern Enterprise

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Grids, SOAs, Web Services, and Beyond; an overview of the ways in which companies are using distributed computing

A Conversation with David Anderson

Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 MDT

The director of SETI@home discusses his work and the volunteer computing movement

Distributing Science

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the BOINC platform and some of the projects using it

How Gamers Can Help Cure Cancer

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a suggestion to add distributed computing clients to the upcoming Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game consoles

Astronomers criticise plans to allow cellphone use on planes

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 00:00:00 MDT

cell phone use on airplanes could drown out the faint signals from space that radio astronomers and projects like SETI need for their research

Modelling climate change

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:00:00 MDT

known unknowns; the chief scientist of climateprediction.net explains what climate change models can and can't tell people about planetary climate trends

Distributed computing for the masses

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 00:00:00 MDT

PlanetQuest hopes its "collaboratory" software will get students to become interested in the sciences

Linux Powers Airborne Bots

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a swarm of robotic helicopters with Linux servers will use distributed computing techniques to evaluate its surroundings

From PlanetQuest, software for stargazers

Tue, 31 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

details about PlanetQuest's software client

Idle computers get busy screening drug targets for cancer

Thu, 26 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

(subscription required); an overview of a new project by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) to find a cure for pancreatic cancer

Association for Computing Machinery Joins World Community Grid

Tue, 24 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Grid Donates 10,000 Years of Run Time to Humanitarian Effort; the ACM "will encourage its 80,000 members worldwide to donate their idle computing time to World Community Grid"

Grid Computing Means Business

Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

how grid computing will be used in business

Computer power of people needed

Sun, 22 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Einstein@home

A place of utmost gravity

Sun, 22 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

The LIGO site in Washington is hoping to be first to prove Einstein theory; an overview of the LIGO observatory, for which Einstein@home is processing data

Science's digital treasure hunt

Thu, 19 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Harnessing home computers to tackle tough questions; a short overview of some current @home projects

Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the University of Wisconsin's Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) computing environment and how two UW professors are using it to study the human genome and the fundamental properties of matter

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grassroots Supercomputing

Fri, 06 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of current distributed computing projects

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grid Sport: Competitive Crunching

Fri, 06 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a look at competitive distributed computing project participants and "crunchers"

IBM's World Grid Crunching Huge Problems

Fri, 06 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the World Community Grid

University course is ahead of the curve

Tue, 03 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of The University of Melbourne's new "master of engineering in distributed computing" program, created by Professor Rao Kotagiri and Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

Consortium Seeks to Ease Grid Rollouts

Mon, 02 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

new version 4 of the Globus Toolkit allows companies to deploy distributed computing environments more easily

Gitmo for Hard Drives

Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Experts in distributed computing could crack al-Qaeda's computer files the hard way; how distributed computing is helping computer forensics solve cases faster

Processing for Science

Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 MDT

"@Home" projects band together and proliferate; an overview of distributed computing and some current projects

Apple Rolls Out Server Operating System Upgrade

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Apple has included XGrid in version 10.4 of Mac OS X Server

CERN takes grid to a new dimension

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Research lab hits 600MB/s between eight sites

Q and A: Grid in the financial industry

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of how the financial industry is using grid computing

World Community Grid powered by 100,000 devices

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has recruited 100,000 computers and completed over 6 million work units

Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid Touted as Novel Approach to Untangling Complexities of Protein Function; in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has predicted 50,000 of the 100,000 to 150,000 protein structures it plans to predict

At-home computing puts idle PCs to scientific use

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Calculating capacity can help research on various projects; an overview of distributed computing and current projects

An Einstein theory still tantalizes

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:00:00 MDT

Scientists hope to prove existence of gravity waves; an overview of the search for evidence of gravity waves, and a mention of Einstein@home

World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) now has more than 100 sites in 31 countries, with over 10,000 CPUs and almost 10 million Gigabytes of disk and tape storage, but this is still only 5% of the processing power the Large Hadron Collider will eventually need

Thousands join hunt for gravitational waves

Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

a short overview and update of Einstein@Home

Now Open: Blue Gene On Demand

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

IBM is offering its Blue Gene supercomputer for computing on demand

Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein's Birthday

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

Wiki Becomes a Way of Life

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the top contributors to Wikipedia

Not Sold on Cell, Yet

Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an opinion about what the next-generation Cell processor needs to do to succeed

Windows for clusters due in autumn

Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition

Planets Lurk on Your Desktop

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the upcoming PlanetQuest project

Ending the Grid Lock

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Globus Consortium, "a non-profit organization aimed at turning more businesses onto grid computing"

A sense of insecurity

Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:00:00 MST

an interview with Yiqun Lisa Yin, one of the Chinese researchers who broke the SHA-1 encryption algorithm

easyMobile.com Offers Spare Computer Processing Capacity to World Community Grid

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

after it builds computing capacity in the UK, easyMobile.com will offer all of its spare capacity to World Community Grid

Unleashing unused brain power

Sun, 27 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Songnian Zhou's company, Platform Computing, is "leading the way in grid computing"

42nd Mersenne Prime Found

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

'Einstein@home,' Revolutionary Astrophysics Project, Targets Ordinary Computer Users -- Lots of Them

Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of Einstein@Home

Interview: The Future in Grid Computing

Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an interview with Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the state of grid computing

Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Einstein@Home project

Catch a gravity wave

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

By installing a new screensaver, you can donate spare computer time to the search for gravity waves.

Software sifts through gravity's mysteries

Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Physicists kick off Einstein @ Home campaign

Another Form of Encryption Goes Down for the Count

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Standard that is key to virtually all secure online communications is broken; the SHA-1 encryption method, used in SSH, SSL, S/MIME, PGP, IPSec, VPN, and many other protocols, has been broken by three Shandong University researchers, using a distributed computing application

PCs do thousands of years of work

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview and update of the Human Proteome Folding project

Schools' computers help fight cancer

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

when they are not in use by students and faculty, Macintosh computers in some Kentucky public schools will be used in a Kentucky state grid for the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center project to look for new cancer therapies

Google may host encyclopedia project

Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Google has offered to host some of Wikipedia's content

Interview with DC climate project head Dr. David Stainforth

Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

p2p and pulsars

Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project

Sun plans to start auctioning capacity

Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Corporate clients could bid online at time of peak need; Sun Microsystems will partner with online stock market Archipelago Holdings, Inc. to create a market in which customers can bid for utility computing power

Distributed Parallel Computing with Web Services

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

how web services can be used with distributed parallel computing

Sun offers processing by the hour

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Sun Microsystems's new service, which offers grid computing for $1US per CPU per hour

The Protein Grid

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Human Proteome Folding project

Home computers search for gravity waves

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 00:00:00 MST

Physicists hope to exploit the downtime of a million machines; an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project

Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

Wired News's summary of climateprediction.net's recent results

Soaring global warming 'can't be ruled out'

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

some climate models generated by climateprediction.net predict a 11.5� C rise in Earth's temperature in 50 years

Alarm at new climate warning

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run.

New Consortium Promotes Grid Computing For Businesses

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems and other companies have created the Globus Consortium "to develop and promote grid-computing software for businesses."

'Rosetta' Software To Unlock Secrets Of Many Human Proteins

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Rosetta software used by the Human Proteome Folding project

The Biggest Grid Yet

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of World Community Grid

Grid gets down to business

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

companies are adopting commercial grid computing cautiously

Supercomputing goes global

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

supercomputers are evolving into grid and distributed computers

Why encyclopaedic row speaks volumes about the old guard

Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

traditional encyclopaedists feel threatened by Wikipedia

Open-sourcing the news

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales talks about Wikinews

Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder

Mon, 03 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All

Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 MST

an interview with a co-creator founder of Wikipedia

A Peek Under Microsoft's Secret 'Bigtop'

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of Microsoft's secret distributed computing initiative

Grid Computing 101

Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

a short introduction to distributed and grid computing

How to Save the World by Doing Nothing

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of World Community Grid

Anti spam bid canned

Tue, 07 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

Lycos scraps anti-spam screensaver

Wikinews goes online

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

Lycos army shoots itself in foot?

Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

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

Part of the Whole

Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed computing and some of the major projects

Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers' bills

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

Wikipedia Creators Move Into News

Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

the creators of the Wikipedia (a free, open-source encyclopedia) have created a similar project for journalism

Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

Lycos Europe's Make Love Not Spam project uses a screensaver for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) against known spam websites

The DistComp Wattage Monitoring Project

Thu, 25 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

a study of how much more electricity a computer uses to run a distributed computing project

IBM's World Community Grid

Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

A New SETI@home-Inspired Venture; an overview of World Community Grid, compared to BOINC

Orion Puts a Cluster on Your Desktop

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Orion's new 12-node and 96-node workstations

Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid

Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

an overview of IBM's new World Community Grid and its collaboration with grid.org

Xbox Linux cluster

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

an experiment to create a Linux cluster from 8 Xboxes

From Seeing to Understanding

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:00:00 MST

how cluster computing is used to visualize and analyze the results of large computing projects