distributedcomputing.info: news and articles

Turn off game shows, help listen for E.T.

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of SETI@home

And we thought Sega Genesis was cool

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of how Sony's Playstation 3 will be used for distributed computing

PlayStation 3 could aid cancer research

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 MST

Sony PlayStation 3 to Research Medical Maladies

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the upcoming Cure@PLAYSTATION 3 project

Genome Comparison Project Launched on World Community Grid

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid's new Genome Comparison project

OSG Director Reports on Grid Progress

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:00:00 MST

an updated overview of the Open Science Grid

Computer saves the world--and you get the credit

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:00:00 MST

a simple overview of distributed computing projects

Looking for company beyond the skies

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview and history of SETI and SETI@home, and thoughts on how the discovery of alien intelligence would affect religion

Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 MDT

"The Folding@home project has put forth some impressive performance numbers with the GPU client that's designed to work with the ATI X1900. According to the client statistics, there are 448 registered GPUs that produce 29 TFLOPS. Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 25,050 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients."

100,000 PCs Involved In Climate Predicting Experiment

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of climateprediction.net

ATI: Power of forty CPUs in one GPU

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:00 MDT

ATI's new graphics card which support "stream computing" will provide a 40-fold increase in computing power for projects such as Folding@home

The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing and Folding@Home

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Grids Opening the Door to Open Science

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MDT

the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy's Office of Science are funding a five-year, $30 million program to operate and expand the two-year-old national Open Science Grid

PlayStation's serious side

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Fightin disease; an overview of Folding@home's software client for Sony's new PlayStation 3

People have the power, again

Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the NASA Clickworkers distributed human project, which ran from 2000-2001, and which will begin again soon, to analyze images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Multiplication power

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Linked computers tapped by researchers; an overview of the current state of distributed and grid computing

Size matters, but quantity can be best way to supercomputing

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Stardust@Home and of distributed computing projects

Folding@home embraces Playstation 3

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home will create a software client for Sony's new PlayStation 3

With Multi-Beam Receiver, SETI@home Takes Giant Step Forward

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of how SETI@home will use a new seven-pronged multi-beam data recorder at the Arecibo telescope to perform more complete and more sensitive surveys of the sky

PC users come to aid of scientists

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Amateurs combine their power to help pros on big projects; an overview of Stardust@Home

You can join hunt for space particles

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Stardust@Home

Malaria Battlers Enlist Power of Your PC

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of malariacontrol.net

The Stardust Hunt is On

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Stardust@Home

Interstellar space dust hunted from home

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Stardust@Home

Fighting Malaria in Africa From Your Home Computer

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of malariacontrol.net

IBM's World Community Grid Powers 'Help Defeat Cancer' Project

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's new cancer-fighting project

IBM Researchers Wield Grid Power In Cancer Battle

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

It's the third health-related project for the charity community program, which allows anyone with a computer to donate idle processing power and time

Wanted: computers for a humanitarian cause

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Spare computing power tackles thorny questions in malaria; a detailed overview of malariacontrol.net

An amazing free screensaver

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of electric sheep

Awash in a Sea of Volunteer Applications

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

are there too many distributed computing projects to choose from?

On the Pulse of Grid Computing

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

how grid computing on TeraGrid machines at NCSA has been used to simulate bloodflow through "every artery in the human body larger than about two to three millimeters in diameter." No project before this has attempted to simulate more than 2 arteries at one time.

Help the World From Home

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Searching for aliens

Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SETI, and how SETI@home is helping it

NYU Scientists Begin Second Phase Of Project To Better Understand Disease

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:00:00 MDT

another overview of the second phase of the World Community Grid project which is looking for cancer biomarkers

World Grid used to study protein folding

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:00:00 MDT

A team of U.S. scientists is using IBM's World Community Grid to be able to predict the structures of key proteins; an overview of how the World Community Grid is being used to find cancer biomarkers

The Rise of Crowdsourcing

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed labor networks, which use the Internet to access "the spare processing power of millions of human brains"

Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the BOINC platform and some of the most popular projects using it

JavaScript Web Application Does High Science

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of how Stardust@Home uses a web-based application written in JavaScript and HTML

UW biomedical researcher taps home computers for oomph

Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of David Baker and his project, Rosetta@home

Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home

Sun, 28 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an in-depth interview of Andrew Westphal, the director of Stardust@Home. Wikinews interviewed him for May [2006]'s Interview of the Month (IOTM) on May 18, 2006

Let your PC find a cure or predict storms

Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the BOINC platform and some of the current projects using it

Volunteer Computer Grids--Beyond SETI@home

Tue, 16 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

a detailed overview of distributed and grid computing, plus histories, descriptions and results for many public distributed computing projects

Cooperative computing: the fellowship of the Grid

Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

how cooperative computing is "taking the Internet to its next level"

Open Source Bioinformatics

Tue, 09 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

how open-source projects like Rosetta@home are advancing bioinformatics research

Avian Flu vs. The Grid

Mon, 08 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an update on D2OL and various grid projects' efforts to discover drugs to fight the H5N1 strain of avian flu

Investment Banks Making Progress with Grid Deployments

Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Making the Impossible, Possible: The Impact of Grid Computing in Telecommunications

Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Grid 2.0

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

The Global Grid Gets Hip

Patel: While your computer wastes time it could be predicting the weather

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of climateprediction.net

Seti@home project asking for donations

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

SETI@home may have to end if the project cannot raise US$750,000 in donations before the end of the year

Project targets avian influenza

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Distributed computing fighting bird flu; an overview of D2OL's Avian Influenza project

New Target in the War on Cancer Ready to Download to Your Computer

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Community TSC's new Phase II research

Next cancer breakthrough from your home PC?

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:00:00 MDT

Rosetta@home project seeks to harness computers for medical research

Searching for the next Google

Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Majestic-12

If distributed processing can search for aliens, why not web pages?

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Majestic-12

PC Collective Cracks 2nd Enigma U-boat Message

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 MST

an overview of M4's second successful message decryption

Enigma project cracks second code

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 MST

Online codebreaking enthusiasts working to solve a series of German World War II ciphers have cracked the second of three codes

The BBC wants your Personal Computer

Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:00:00 MST

Weather with thou or against thee; a short overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment