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Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.netThe Jakarta PostMay 10, 2008
Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game; an overview of the new Foldit protein folding gameHoward Hughes Medical Institute NewsMay 8, 2008
WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab; the 30 most-promising drug candidates from the WISDOM grid project were tested in a lab and all were effective. Now they are being tested in living cultures of the malaria parasite.International Science Grid this WeekMay 7, 2008
Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance; an overview of Gómez Performance Network PeerTMCNetMay 2, 2008
UK computing Grid "warming up for world’s largest experiment"; an update of the U.K.'s GridPP computing grid and its readiness for data from the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) projectInteractions.orgApril 24, 2008
Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...; an overview of distributed computing projectsEagle Connection BlogApril 22, 2008
Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined; an overview and beta test of Folding@home's new "GPU2" client. This client supports all Radeon HD 2400 and above cards, up to the Radeon HD 3870 X2.ExtremeTechApril 16, 2008
First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray (login required)Stardust@HomeApril 15, 2008
Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age; the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital LibrariesICT ResultsApril 14, 2008
Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure; money and computing power cannot solve every problemNew York TimesApril 14, 2008
The age of the Grid; when CERN turns on the Large Hadron Collider later this summer it will also turn on The Grid, a data communications network 10,000 times faster than the InternetBusiness StandardApril 8, 2008
Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network projectThe InquirerApril 2, 2008
Money, infectious disease and Where’s George?; mathematical models derived from the Where's George?project, which shows the geographic spread of money, can also show the geographic spread of infectious diseaseInternational Science Grid this WeekApril 2, 2008
Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network projectWired MagazineMarch 31, 2008
'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves; asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@HomeNew Scientist SpaceMarch 31, 2008
Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing ResearchInformationWeekMarch 24, 2008
Building Enzymes from Scratch; Rosetta@home was used to create two enzymes not found in natureHoward Hughes Medical InstituteMarch 20, 2008
Distributed computing and the Singularity; distributed computing will accelerate humanity's path toward the Singularity, "a hypothesized point in the future where unprecedented acceleration of technological progress will trigger colossal change," predicted by Ray KurzweilInternational Science Grid this WeekMarch 19, 2008
How low can a Sudoku go?; an overview of the Sudoku projectInternational Science Grid this WeekMarch 12, 2008
OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate; "spimes," objects which record where and when they are and other data, could be used in distributed computing networks to build maps of carbon dioxide levels and other climate dataLunchoverIPMarch 8, 2008
Project BudBurst wants you to track nature's changes for database; Project Budburst, a "citizen science" project which began in February, 2008, asks volunteers to record the dates at which various plant species bloom or bud in an effort to track climate changes possibly caused by global warmingScramento BeeMarch 8, 2008
Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers; an overview of BOINC and volunteer computingTechnology NewsMarch 4, 2008
Idle computers are kept busy scanning the skies; an overview of SETI@home and BOINCNews LetterMarch 4, 2008
SETI's Other Coup: We might not have yet found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but SETI has more than proven its worth with its success in distributed computingPopular ScienceMarch 3, 2008
Your computer can help science with BOINC; an overview of BOINC and distributed computing projectsInternetspotter.comMarch 2, 2008
Evolving towards the future of science: genetic algorithms and grid computing; genetic algorithms are being used to optimize the scheduling of computing jobs for computing gridsInternational Science Grid this WeekFebruary 27, 2008
Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG; a history of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG)International Science Grid this WeekFebruary 27, 2008
Stardust@Home Team Extracts First Particle Track from Stardust CollectorThe Planetary SocietyFebruary 16, 2008
How much is your wired world costing you?; an experiment to see how much electricity a PlayStation3 uses when it performs work for a distributed computing project such as Folding@homeglobeandmail.comFebruary 15, 2008
Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users; one million Sony PlaySation 3 owners have signed up for Folding@homeGamasutraFebruary 4, 2008
Sifting through image library will help cancer fight; IBM, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University are creating a project (an extension of the Help Defeat Cancer project) to use advanced computer and imaging technologies to compare cancerous tissues and cell and radiology studies to "make more accurate cancer prognoses, more personalized treatment planning and eventually to discover and develop new cancer drugs."IBMJanuary 28, 2008
Near Earth Objects: We Can't Beat the Odds Forever; thoughts about the risks to Earth from near-Earth objects, and news that orbit@home has been funded by NASA and active development of the project will begin next monthMichael Graham RichardJanuary 27, 2008
The real antivirus programs; an overview of disease-fighting distributed computing projects such as D2OLThinggamajiggy BlogJanuary 27, 2008
Opinion - Avalanche warning: the new challenges of the data grid; how (and for how long) can we store all of the data generated by distributed and grid computing projects?International Science Grid this WeekJanuary 23, 2008
A Warm Welcome for Android; the GridGain project will turn Google Android platform-based cell phones into a computing gridMSNBCJanuary 23, 2008
Speaking of Science: The science of sleeping computers; an overview of distributed computing projectsThe Daily of the University of WashingtonJanuary 17, 2008
Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!; seven new receivers installed on the Arecibo radio telescope will provide 500 times more data for SETI@homeEETimesJanuary 3, 2008
Wikia Search Open For Developers On Monday: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Calls For Transparency And Privacy In Engine; Wikia Search's open-source codebase was opened to external developers on January 7, 2008Best SyndicationJanuary 3, 2008
 
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