| Recent Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed: A security researcher is in the process of building a table that will enable the cracking of GSM encryption, assuming that a parallel effort to crack its frequency hopping algorithm succeeds; an overview of the Creating A5/1 Rainbow Tables project | Ars Technica | December 30, 2009 |
| Cooperación global (Global Cooperation); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | La Nacion | December 28, 2009 |
| Birmingham's Majestic-12 nipping at Google's heels; Majestic-12 is only the second search engine in the world to join the "webmap trillionaires club"--the first is Google. | Birmingham Post | December 18, 2009 |
| Search for ET requires upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches; SETI@Home is using the fastest Ethernet data networking switches available to process over one petabyte (1,000 Terabytes) of radio spectrum data every day | SearchNetworking.com | December 16, 2009 |
| Scientists: Tweets after an earthquake could aid emergency workers; scientists may some day be able to mine crowdsourced data such as tweets to quickly identify earthquakes and other disasters | Yahoo Tech Blogs | December 15, 2009 |
| A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing; computing is creating the "fourth paradigm" of science--computational science, in which scientific computation tools must evolve to manage a growing flood of observational data | New York Times | December 14, 2009 |
| Are we really alone?; a short history of the search for alien life and alien intelligence | The National | December 14, 2009 |
| Air Force Taps PlayStation 3 for Research; the U.S. Air Force is testing PlayStation 3 clusters for distributed computing research | The Industry Standard | December 7, 2009 |
| I see crime scenes; the IC-CRIME (Interdisciplinary Cyber-enabled Crime Reconstruction through Innovative Methodology and Engagement) project will use a crime scene capture device to allow online, distributed crime scene analysis and to create a database of crime scenes for future pattern analysis and training. | International Science Grid this Week | December 2, 2009 |
| Higley firing tied to alien-search software; a school district network administrator was fired for (among other things) running SETI@home on every school district computer without permission | azcentral.com | November 30, 2009 |
| Astronomers release galactic collision game: Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | BBC News | November 25, 2009 |
| Cloud to power research number-crunching | ZDNet Asia | November 25, 2009 |
| How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC computing platform and of 12 BOINC-based distributed computing projects | PC World Australia | November 25, 2009 |
| It’s a Zoo Out There: Galaxy Project Engages ‘Armchair Scientists’; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | George Mason University News | November 24, 2009 |
| CERN's LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing; CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is influencing grid and cloud computing architecture and practices | Computer Weekly | November 23, 2009 |
| Play the Galactic Slots; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Mergers project | MSNBC Cosmic Log | November 23, 2009 |
| Database details 2.7 million possible structures for molecular sieves; a private distributed computing project discovered almost 3 million possible zeolites, or molecular sieves which filter molecules of certain sizes. Before this project only 200 zeolites were known. | nanowerk | November 2, 2009 |
| Computers Around the World Unite; an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Chinese, but you can read an English translation of it. | news.163.com | November 1, 2009 |
| Cloud Computing Not Hype But Reality | Network Computing | November, 2009 |
| La ciencia extiende su red de investigación con la computación voluntaria (Science extends its network of volunteer computing research); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | Wall Street Journal Online | October 29, 2009 |
| Quake-Catcher Network seeks volunteers on campus to host seismic sensors; a scientist at Stanford University wants students on the campus to attach seismic sensors to their laptops to support the Quake Catcher Network | Stanford News | October 27, 2009 |
| La Universidad de Berkeley impulsa un superordenador de uso gratuito y universal (Berkeley University supercomputer launches a free and universal service); an overview of the BOINC computing platform's growing support in Spain and of Einstein@Home (this article is written in Spanish but you can view an English translation of it). | elPeriódico.com | October 23, 2009 |
| Volunteering Computers for Science: Users Make Their Home PCs Available to Chase Medical Breakthroughs; a detailed overview of distributed computing projects, the BOINC computing platform, and Rosetta@Home | Wall Street Journal Online | October 20, 2009 |
| Volunteers Donate Idle Computing Power for Biomedical Research; an overview of distributed computing projects and the BOINC computing platform | iHealthBeat | October 20, 2009 |
| Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize; GIMPS has won a US$100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for its discovery, on August 23, 2008, of the first known primer number with more than 10 million digits | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 14, 2009 |
| 45th Mersenne prime revealed: GIMPS grabs $100,000 for discovery | The Register | October 14, 2009 |
| Wirbicki Law Group Seeks to Change the World...One Computer at a Time; a law firm is encouraging other law firms to join it in participating in World Community Grid | dsnews.com | October 13, 2009 |
| UK Search Engine Takes on Google; Majestic-12 discovered its 1 trillionth unique URL on October 12, 2009. The only other organization to publicly announce it has discovered 1 trillion URLs is Google | PRWeb | October 12, 2009 |
| Anthony Doesburg: Idle time put to work, all in the cause of science; an overview of distributed computing projects, citizen science and BOINC | New Zealand Herald News | October 12, 2009 |
| A new age for the oldest science; an overview of computational astronomy | International Science Grid this Week | October 7, 2009 |
| Compuware Buys Gomez For $295 Million In Cash; Gomez, the owner of the Gomez PEER project, will be owned by Compuware after November, 2009 | TechCrunchIT | October 7, 2009 |
| Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'; an overview of a potentially controversial upcoming Distributed Human project/game | Mail Online | October 5, 2009 |
| Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life; an overview of the upcoming EvoGrid project | Popular Science | September 29, 2009 |
| Forget it Rhonda: Help, help me Einstein; "A group of summer students working on the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, project at the California Institute of Technology created a medley of songs on YouTube to explain their research." | Symmetry Magazine | September 10, 2009 |
| BOINC, software open source per il grid computing (BOINC, open source software for grid computing); an overview of BOINC. This article is written in Italian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Programmazione.it | September 10, 2009 |
| Link of the Week--Citizen Cyberspace; an update on the Citizen Cyberscience Center, a United Nations project to "provide scientists with an inexpensive form of distributed computing power that is complementary to grid technology--as seen in such processing-intensive problems as the LHC@home project or the 'Africa@home' project." | International Science Grid this Week | September 9, 2009 |
| The "Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together" reaches phase 2; Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together completed Phase 1 on August 28, 2009, and is preparing for Phase 2 | thinkdigit | August 28, 2009 |
| New project uses distributed computing to break GSM crypto; an overview of the new Creating A5/1 Rainbow Tables project | The Tech Herald | August 28, 2009 |
| Asian computers join forces against avian flu; the Avian Flu DC2 Refinement project, which was run in March, 2009 on the EUAsiaGrid, tested 300,000 potential drug molecules against eight new avian flu mutation targets | International Science Grid This Week | August 26, 2009 |
| Web of hope; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | Western Weekender Penrith Online | August 26, 2009 |
| Cracking GSM phone crypto via distributed computing; an overview of a new, open-source, distributed computing project, A5/1, to crack the encryption used on GSM phones to publicize a weak encryption scheme that is already being exploited | CNET News | August 25, 2009 |
| Grid computing, the new commodity; the European GridEcon project has created a platform for buying and selling computing resources as a utility | ICT Results | August 24, 2009 |
| Henry Markham (the Project Director of the Blue Brain project) Interview; an overview of the Blue Brain project to study the mammalian brain through simulation, and a possible upcoming distributed computing project, the "Adopt a Neuron Project" | Next Big Future | August 24, 2009 |
| Pupil hooks school up to search for aliens; an overview of a New Zealand high school student's successful project to set up his school's computers to participate in SETI@home | Otago Daily Times Online | August 21, 2009 |
| Grid helps to filter LIGO’s data; how the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses the LIGO Data Grid and Open Science Grid to look for evidence of gravitational waves in large amounts of data | International Science Grid This Week | August 19, 2009 |
| SETI telescope array produces first science results; with only 42 of its planned 350 radio telescope dishes installed so far, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is generating useful science results even as it searches for alien radio signals | New Scientist | August 18, 2009 |
| English Wikipedia hits three million articles | The Guardian | August 17, 2009 |
| New heroes with a hard drive; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | The Sydney Morning Herald | August 16, 2009 |
| Hunt for Supernovae With Galaxy Zoo | Universe Today | August 13, 2009 |
| Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money; the Digsby social networking software application installs a distributed computing client on a user's computer by default, unless the user reads the application's terms of service and disables the client. Digsby may use the client to generate revenue to support development of the application. | lifehacker | August 13, 2009 |
| Why it's time to ditch Digsby; the Download.com editorial team decided to lower the ratings score for the Digsby social networking software application because it did not address its users' concerns about "stealthily" installing a distributed computing client on a user's computer when the user install's Digsby's application | Download.com | August 13, 2009 |
| BOINC gets social with Facebook | International Science Grid This Week | August 12, 2009 |
| World Community Grid...; a short overview of World Community Grid | examiner.com | August 8, 2009 |
| Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For Research: The Progress Through Processors app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for diseases, climate prediction, and malaria control | InformationWeek | August 7, 2009 |
| Rosetta@Home Stands to Gain Compute Power from Intel's New Facebook-based App | GenomeWeb | August 7, 2009 |
| Can Intel cure cancer with progress through processors? | ITWire | August 6, 2009 |
| Your Mom’s Facebook Status: I’m Crunching Climate Data!; Intel and Grid Republic have created a Progress Through Processors application for Facebook to allow Facebook users to contribute to BOINC-based projects | Wired Magazine | August 5, 2009 |
| Donate Your Computer's Idle Time To a Good Cause On Facebook; a short overview of the new Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | Popular Science | August 5, 2009 |
| Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power; an overview of the Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | CNET News | August 3, 2009 |
| People's astronomy; a great overview of current distributed computing and "citizen science" astronomy projects | IET Knowledge Network | July 6, 2009 |
| 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed; GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits) | Slashdot Science | June 13, 2009 |
| How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platform | dish Magazine | June, 2009 |
| IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project | IT News Online | May 5, 2009 |
| Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source; notes from a talk by Jill Tarter of The SETI Institue about how SETI uses, and plans to use, technology in its search for alien intelligence | PCMag.com Blogs | May 4, 2009 |
| SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began | PHYSORG.com | May 1, 2009 |
| A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten years | siliconrepublic.com | April 30, 2009 |
| Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate | When I Have Time | April 24, 2009 |
| National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research | National Science Foundation News | April 23, 2009 |
| Mining For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers; an overview of distributed computing projects searching for prime numbers, and of GIMPS in particular | National Public Radio | April 10, 2009 |
| IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project | Silicon Republic | March 25, 2009 |
| New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars; Einstein@Home will search data from the Arecibo radio telescope to find binary systems consisting of a spinning neutron star orbiting another neutron star or a black hole. The project can detect pulsars in binary systems with orbital periods as short as 11 minutes, 5 times shorter than it was previously possible to detect. | SpaceRef | March 24, 2009 |
| Folding@home now the world’s most powerful supercomputer | Custom PC | February 24, 2009 |
| New ATI Catalyst 9.2 goes live; ATI (now AMD)'s new version 9.2 Catalyst driver provides multi-GPU support for Folding@home | Fudzilla | February 22, 2009 |
| Zweite Runde gestartet: (Second Round Started); an overview of the new features of Galaxy Zoo 2.0. This article is written in German, but you can read an English translation of it. | gulli | February 20, 2009 |
| Help create an earthbound sun; an overview of the Ibercivis project's efforts to help design ITER, "a joint international research and development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power" | International Science Grid This Week | February 18, 2009 |
| Neues Futter für Hobby-Astronomen: (New fodder for hobby astronomers); an overview of Galaxy Zoo 2.0. This article is written in German, but you can read an English translation of it. | Spiegel Online | February 17, 2009 |
| Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life; maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques | The New York Times | February 10, 2009 |
| Scientists proposed the solution of Fermi's paradox; scientists have proposed a solution to Fermi's paradox and predicted that over 200 civilizations capable of sending radio signals could exist in the Milky Way galaxy. This article is written in Russian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Data Manager | February 2, 2009 |
| How to build a powerful distributed computer | TechRadar UK | February 1, 2009 |
| Extremadurathome: colaboración ciudadana en proyectos científicos (Extremadurathome: citizen collaboration in scientific projects): An overview of the new Extremadurathome computing platform/portal. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | barrapunto.com | January 30, 2009 |
| Eficientan celdas solares (Efficient Solar Cells): Mexican scientists help Harvard develop organic solar cell materials for clean energy. An overview of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | El Manaña | January 24, 2009 |
| Green it!; a short overview of climateprediction.net | The University Daily Kansan | January 22, 2009 |
| Parabon Computation puts idle processing power to work; an overview of Parabon Computation, which owns the Compute Against Cancer project | TechJournal South | January 21, 2009 |
| Perspectives on advancements in distributed computing | International Science Grid This Week | January 21, 2009 |
| Hardcore gaming enthusiasts in bio project; an ovewrview of Folding@home's success with the Sony PlayStation 3 architecture | The Hindu | January 18, 2009 |
| INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: Astronomy Hits the Big Time; (subscription required); Galaxy Zoo is making important new contributions to astronomy | Science Magazine | January 16, 2009 |
| A galaxy of helpful people: An Oxford scientist has harnessed the power of the web to create a massive citizen-science project that is truly collaborative; an overview of Galaxy Zoo | The Guardian | January 15, 2009 |
| Help Mankind by Folding@Home; a short overview of Folding@home | Prasys' Blog | January 11, 2009 |
| Celle solari più efficienti e meno costose anche grazie al tuo PC! (More efficient and less expensive solar cells also thanks to your PC!); an overview of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project. This article is written in Italian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Data Manager | January 9, 2009 |
| La inteligencia colectiva se pone al servicio de la ciencia a través de Internet (Collective intelligence is put to the service of science through Internet); an overview of Foldit. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | El País | January 8, 2009 |
| Nvidia CUDA acelera la investigación científica (Nvidia CUDA accelerates the scientific research); an overview of some BOINC projects using NVIDIA CUDA GPUs to speed up research. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | Diario Tecnologías de la Información | January 7, 2009 |
| Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering; Purdue University has created a Distributed Rendering Environment which uses idle time on more than 20,000 CPUs at the university to render graphics for Purdue's students' projects | International Science Grid this Week | January 7, 2009 |
| The Universe Today Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008; Galaxy Zoo was voted one of Universe Today's top 10 scientific research projects of 2008 | Universe Today | January 2, 2009 |
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