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Home Computers Help Researchers Better Understand Universe

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Cosmology@Home

Secure enough? Re-assessment of the world's most-used hash function

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) and the SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project's attempt to break it

Helping the world, one byte at a time

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid

You too can do particle physics

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of LHC@home

Google And IBM Take Aim At Shortage Of Distributed Computing Skills

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Capabilities will be in much greater demand as software as a service and massive data warehouses become more pervasive

From Aliens to Accelerators - @home project comes to the UK

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of LHC@home, now running in the UK, and some of its possible future applications

Skies to be swept for alien life

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life; the first 42 of a planned 350 radio telescopes in the Allen Telescope Array are active and gathering scientific data as of October 11, 2007

It's Raining Cloud Computing

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

!; Google and IBM have come together to popularize Internet-scale distributed computing in educational institutions

World Community Grid migrates to BOINC

Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid is migrating completely to the BOINC platform

Spam weapon helps preserve books

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Carnegie Mellon University has begun a distributed human project to digitize non-machine-readable text in books while preventing spam by using a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart)

Folding@Home Protein Project Hits a Petaflop

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Eighty percent of the power for the project comes from spare processor cycles on PlayStation 3 consoles

IBM bids to find cure using computer grid

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project

United Devices merges with Chicago company

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

United Devices has merged with Chicago-based Univa, "which develops related technology." The combined company is called Univa UD.

Criminals' botnet more powerful than BlueGene?

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence

ViroLab: a grid-based decision support system for HIV infections

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

ViroLab will allow European doctors to use the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE infrastructure computing grid to make better decisions in treating HIV infections

Unfolding the secrets of disease

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of protein folding, distributed computing, and Folding@home

Amazon.com�s Mechanical Turk Joins the Hunt for Steve Fossett

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Amazon Mechanical Turk has created a distributed human project to find Steve Fossett, whose plane disappeared on September 3, 2007 in Nevada

Wikipedia passes two million article mark

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

UCT taps into IBM's climate change grid

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Scientists at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa will use the World Community Grid "to study climate change [in South Africa] and devise agricultural strategies to cope with changing weather patterns"

Grids: a global home for serious science

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Human Proteome Folding's accomplishments and plans

Grid computing to tackle climate change

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 MDT

IBM is to work with academics from the University of Cape Town to use grid computing to model climate change in Southern Africa; an overview of AfricanClimate@Home

What we do

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an update of Stardust@Home's Phase 2

Give time to develop artificial brain

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the upcoming Artificial Intelligence System project

Distributed SHA-1 code-cracking effort launched

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project

An army of galaxy hunters

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview and update of Galaxy Zoo

World Scouting Launches Partnership with World Community Grid

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

as part of its Centenary celebrations, World Scouting (i.e. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, etc.), is encouraging scouts to join a new SCOUTS team participating in World Community Grid

Jimbo takes on Google

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of wikia's revival of the grub.org distributed web crawling indexer/search engine project

Galaxy Zoo Wants You to Help Map the Cosmos

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:00:00 MDT

Online Help Sought for Galaxy Census

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo project

Searching for E.T. and the Cure for Cancer

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 MDT

The Planetary Society Helps Trigger a Computing Revolution