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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 ScienceJune 13, 2009
How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platformdish MagazineJune, 2009
IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research projectIT News OnlineMay 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 intelligencePCMag.com BlogsMay 4, 2009
SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it beganPHYSORG.comMay 1, 2009
A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten yearssiliconrepublic.comApril 30, 2009
Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participateWhen I Have TimeApril 24, 2009
National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing ResearchNational Science Foundation NewsApril 23, 2009
IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer projectSilicon RepublicMarch 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.SpaceRefMarch 24, 2009
Folding@home now the world’s most powerful supercomputerCustom PCFebruary 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@homeFudzillaFebruary 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.gulliFebruary 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 WeekFebruary 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 OnlineFebruary 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 techniquesThe New York TimesFebruary 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 ManagerFebruary 2, 2009
How to build a powerful distributed computerTechRadar UKFebruary 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.comJanuary 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 ManañaJanuary 24, 2009
Green it!; a short overview of climateprediction.netThe University Daily KansanJanuary 22, 2009
Parabon Computation puts idle processing power to work; an overview of Parabon Computation, which owns the Compute Against Cancer projectTechJournal SouthJanuary 21, 2009
Perspectives on advancements in distributed computingInternational Science Grid This WeekJanuary 21, 2009
Hardcore gaming enthusiasts in bio project; an ovewrview of Folding@home's success with the Sony PlayStation 3 architectureThe HinduJanuary 18, 2009
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: Astronomy Hits the Big Time; (subscription required); Galaxy Zoo is making important new contributions to astronomyScience MagazineJanuary 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 ZooThe GuardianJanuary 15, 2009
Help Mankind by Folding@Home; a short overview of Folding@homePrasys' BlogJanuary 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 ManagerJanuary 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 PaísJanuary 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 InformaciónJanuary 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' projectsInternational Science Grid this WeekJanuary 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 2008Universe TodayJanuary 2, 2009
SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions; "using a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about US$700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority (CA), a breakthrough that allows the forging of certificates that are fully trusted by all modern Web browsers"ZDNet BlogsDecember 30, 2008
Scientists Probe For Otherworldly Life; an overview of SETI and SETI@homeThe Mountain MailDecember 25, 2008
D-Wave Arms ‘Smoking Gun’ Proof of Quantum Computer; an overview of AQUA@homeThe New York Times Bits BlogsDecember 22, 2008
NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research; new version 6.4.5 of BOINC can use NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA technology to perform some kinds of distributed computing research 2 to 20 times fasterNVIDIADecember 17, 2008
Distributed security cracking: Will the future of security cracking lie in 'cloud computing'?TechRepublic.comDecember 16, 2008
IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops: an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World projectFinding DulcineaDecember 16, 2008
Emissions: Where do you draw the line?: are the potential energy-saving results from The Clean Energy Project worth the amount of energy used by computers participating in the project?The GuardianDecember 16, 2008
IBM rice project works on new strains; an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World projectTradeArabiaDecember 13, 2008
World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it; an overview of The Clean Energy ProjectThe InquirerDecember 11, 2008
Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems; a short overview of World Community GridGatherDecember 10, 2008
We will find aliens 'by 2025'; SETI@home should help us find alien radio signals soonerIndependent.ieDecember 10, 2008
IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study; an overview of the new The Clean Energy ProjectThe GuardianDecember 8, 2008
IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells; an overview of The Clean Energy ProjectClean TechnicaDecember 8, 2008
IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds; an overview of The Clean Energy ProjectDailyTechDecember 8, 2008
University of Washington biochemist David Baker to receive 2008 Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for discoveries in protein folding7th Space InteractiveNovember 27, 2008
Fight AIDS at home, via unused computer time; on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008, the World Community Grid is sponsoring a month-long challenge to provide more computing resources to AIDS researchers via FightAIDS@homeInternational Science Grid this WeekNovember 26, 2008
Virtual Telescopes Tweaked; an overview of Internet-based virtual telescopes and distributed computing projects related to AstronomyMSNBC Cosmic LogNovember 11, 2008
How curing boredom can boost research; a short overview of distributed human projectsNew ScientistNovember 5, 2008
The Energy Impact of Grid Computing (registration required to view article)EE Times-AsiaNovember 4, 2008
Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection; a short overview of the Quake Catcher NetworkDVICEOctober 27, 2008
Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's; an overview of FolditCNet NewsOctober 24, 2008
Catching quakes with laptops; an overview of the Quake Catcher NetworkInternational Science Grid this WeekOctober 22, 2008
ET may be out there, but would he talk to us?; an overview of the search for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and SETI@homeTimes OnlineOctober 21, 2008
Reaching for the Exa-scale, by BOINC-ing; using BOINC and Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) we will reach the 1 ExaFLOPS (1,000 PetaFLOPS) computing milestone soonInternational Science Grid this WeekOctober 15, 2008
Volunteer computing helps track malaria; an overview of malariacontrol.net and its first published resultsInternational Science Grid this WeekOctober 15, 2008
CERN starts the Peta-Grid; CERN officially started the World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) on Friday, October 3, 2008heise online UKOctober 6, 2008
Laptop device catches notice of seismologists in hunt for earthquake data; an overview of the Quake Catcher NetworkThe Press-EnterpriseOctober 5, 2008
World's biggest computing grid launched; an overview of CERN's World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which was officially started on October 3, 2008PHYSORG.comOctober 3, 2008
Supercomputers Fight Thromboses; Russian scientists used distributed computing to test 6,000 potential drug molecules over 18 months and found potential molecules which "may become the basis for new effective therapy against thromboses [blood clots] and components for blood substitutes"Russia-InfoCenterOctober 3, 2008
Txteagle pays mobile phone users for short tasks ; upcoming for-pay distributed human project txteagle will pay mobile phone users in developing countries to perform short tasks such as sending text messages or translating wordsSalon.comOctober 2, 2008
No excuse for under-utilization: Clemson back-fills with BOINC; Clemson University's School of Computing is contributing its spare computing power to the World Community Grid through BOINCInternational Science Grid This WeekOctober 1, 2008
UCLA finds first Mersenne Prime over 10 million digits; an overview of Edson Smith's discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digits using UCLA's computersInternational Science Grid This WeekOctober 1, 2008
13 Million-Digit Prime Number Shows Benefits of Distributed Computing Projects; an overview of GIMPS' discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digitsfinding DulcineaOctober 1, 2008
What can you do with a 12-million-digit prime number?; the point of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s challenge to find a large Mersenne prime number is not just to find a large number but to prove that a "big real-world problem can benefit from everyday people volunteering their computers for a distributed-computing project"Christian Science MonitorSeptember 30, 2008
Quake Catcher Network: SETI@home Spinoff Tracks Earth-Shakers; an overview of the Quake Catcher NetworkThe Planetary SocietySeptember 28, 2008
Shake it all about: How to use your laptop to locate an earthquake; an overview of the Quake Catcher NetworkEconomistSeptember 25, 2008
Grids meet aliens and androids; the 4th annual Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, which met in Grenoble, France, on September 11-12, discussed the future of BOINC and new directions for volunteer computing including new Distributed Thinking platforms like Bossa and BOLTInternational Science Grid This WeekSeptember 24, 2008
Big prime nets big profit; an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveriesNatureSeptember 19, 2008
Life starts now; Sony has launched a "Life with Playstation" service on the PlayStation3 console. The service provides "worldwide news, weather and other information," and "a more advanced simulation of protein folding for Folding@home."Sydney Morning Herald BlogsSeptember 19, 2008
Sony launches Life with PlayStation; an overview of Sony's new Life with Playstation service for Playstation3GameSpot NewsSeptember 18, 2008
Two largest known prime numbers discovered just two weeks apart, one qualifies for $100k prize; an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveriesWikiNewsSeptember 18, 2008
Big and bigger: New prime numbers claim top two spots; GIMPS discovered its 45th and 46th known Mersenne prime numbers on August 23, 2008 and September 6, 2008. These are the largest Mersenne primes known. The first number has almost 13 million digits and the second has 11.2 million digits.Scientific AmericanSeptember 16, 2008
The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possibleZDNet GovernmentSeptember 10, 2008
Your idle computer can save the world; an overview of World Community GridThe McGill DailySeptember 8, 2008
How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web: The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of informationScientific AmericanSeptember 4, 2008
NYU, American Museum of Natural History receive $1.6 million NSF grant; New York University and the American Museum of Natural History have received a grant to study "plant evolution and to create a public database that provides information about the structure and inferred function of proteins found in two plant genomes." They will create a project for World Community Grid.EurekAlert!September 3, 2008
Join the crowd: Why do multinationals use amateurs to solve scientific and technical problems?; an overview of crowdsourcingThe IndependentSeptember 2, 2008
Mega Grid for Mega Science; an overview of grid computing and the LHC Computing Grid (LCG)R and D MagazineAugust 29, 2008
Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T.; an overview of SETI@home's new Astropulse projectThe Planetary SocietyAugust 27, 2008
Build a Better Quake Catcher; an overview of Quake Catcher NetworkPopular ScienceAugust 21, 2008
Humans can; computers can't; an overview of reCAPTCHA and some other Distributed Human projects which use human games to do useful work that computers can't doThe News and ObserverAugust 20, 2008
If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been Enlisted as a Human Scanner; an overview of reCAPTCHAScientific AmericanAugust 19, 2008
51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points per day; a 51-card NVIDIA-based computing rig built by nitteo of the overclock.net forums will generate an estimated 265,200 folding points per day for Folding@homeEngadgetAugust 13, 2008
Link of the Week - LHC at home; an overview of LHC@homeInternational Science Grid this WeekAugust 13, 2008
The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?; how cloud computing differs from distributed and grid computingSys-Con MediaAugust 13, 2008
Hadoop: When grownups do open source; an overview of the Hadoop open-source library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce frameworkThe RegisterAugust 11, 2008
IBM grant to help UTMB’s global computing project discover dengue drugs: IBM has awarded the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston a grant to install a high-performance IBM storage system to assist its global computing effort [run on IBM's Global Computing Grid] to find drugs for reemerging infectious diseases like dengue, West Nile and hepatitis C.Blocks and FilesJuly 31, 2008
Could ‘Crowd-Sourcing’ be the next big thing?Mybroadband.co.za BlogsJuly 29, 2008
NVIDIA Dramatically Acclerates the Search for a Cure; an overview of NVIDIA's support for Folding@home's new GPU clientWebWireJuly 28, 2008
SETI@Home Adds New Search Method; an overview of SETI@home's Astropulse projectSlashdotJuly 27, 2008
Recherche: un logiciel pour modéliser les prairies!; an overview of Virtual Prairie. The article is written in French.Lyon-Nature.frJuly 25, 2008
Cure Diseases and Have Fun Competing at the Same Time; an overview of Folding@homeScience BlogsJuly 16, 2008
Playing the Science Game; an overview of FolditChronicle.comJuly 4, 2008
Beyond Graphics--The Present and Future of GP-GPU; Folding@home's new GPU client is an average of four times faster than the PS3 client and 40 times faster than the PC clientExtremeTechJuly 2, 2008
The brains behind the operation: How do you top the invention of the world wide web? Bobbie Johnson introduces Cern's plan for the next leap forward in computer technology: the grid; an overview of distributed and grid computingThe GuardianJune 30, 2008
Using Personal Computers to Solve Humanitarian Problems; an overview of World Community GridVoice of America NewsJune 29, 2008
An armchair astronomer discovers something very odd; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's recent discoveryThe EconomistJune 26, 2008
Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method; a rebuttal to the "The End of Theory" articleArs Technica NewsJune 25, 2008
Screensavers help University cancer research; an overview of Cels@HomeThe Daily Texan OnlineJune 25, 2008
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete; in The Petabyte Age we can use massive amounts of data and processing, instead of scientific theories, to study the world around usWired MagazineJune 24, 2008
Grid computing boosts cancer research; an overview and update of Cels@HomeTG DailyJune 24, 2008
Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part I); astronomers around the world are taking interest in the Voorwerp object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participantScience NewsJune 19, 2008
Stanford releases folding client for Nvidia GPUs; Folding@home can now run on Nvidia GPUs (i.e. graphics cards)Custom PCJune 18, 2008
Scientists tap gaming's power: You, too, can help figure out proteins; an overview of FolditSeattle Post-IntelligencerJune 16, 2008
Join the search while you sleep; a short overview of SETI@homeArizona Daily StarJune 15, 2008
Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware; Kaspersky Labs wants to create a new project to try to crack the Gpcode blackmail virus. This virus encrypts a user's files with a 1024-bit RSA key and tells the user to pay a blackmailer for the decryptor. Cracking the key would require the work of 15 million computers running for one year.SlashdotJune 11, 2008
SETI Researchers Gather At ASTRON For Search Beyond Beyond; another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETISpace DailyJune 11, 2008
New Telescope to Hunt for Aliens; another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETISPACE.comJune 11, 2008
LOFAR telescope used in search for extraterrestrial life?; the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope could be used for SETISpaceRef NewsJune 10, 2008
IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis; an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the WorldImage and Data ManagerJune 10, 2008
Folding Proteins: Someone's Idea of Having Fun?; a short overview of Folding@home and FolditPraise Science BlogJune 9, 2008
Video searching uses people power; the new They Work for You project asks volunteers to watch short video clips from Parliament sessions and to match them to official transcripts of the sessions, making the full videos of the sessions searchableBBC NewsJune 3, 2008
Computers crunch possible cures for cancer; computers in the student computer lab at Austin Community College are participating in the World Community GridKXANJune 2, 2008
DC.Ars: running the POEM@Home gauntlet; an overview of POEM@HOME and its participation in CASP8, and the DC.Ars team's participation in an informal contest for POEM@HOME during June, 2008ars technicaJune 2, 2008
IBM turns unused computers into grid to solve (some of) the world's problems; a good overview of the World Community GridAustin American-StatesmanMay 29, 2008
GTA4: Enabler of Life Sciences Research?; as more computer gamers buy PlayStation3 consoles to play Grand Theft Auto 4, more PS3s become available for use by distributed computing projects such as Folding@homeBio-IT WorldMay 29, 2008
Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play; Fedora Nightlife is "a new project for creating a Fedora (Linux) community grid. People will be able to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power."DaniWebMay 29, 2008
First WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins, ready for beta; an overview of the new WikiProfessional project, WikiProteinsArs Technica NewsMay 27, 2008
IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis; an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the WorldCNNMay 15, 2008
Join the Hunt for Super-Rice; an overview of the new World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the WorldNew York TimesMay 14, 2008
Hello, Einstein residence? Why yes, he's home!; a short overview of Einstein@HomeInternational Science Grid this WeekMay 14, 2008
Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars; an overview of the new Looking For Mars Polar Lander projectNewScientistSpaceMay 12, 2008
Gaming for Medical Research; a short overview of FolditTechnocratMay 11, 2008
Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.netThe Jakarta PostMay 10, 2008
I'm Donating My Unused Computer Processing Power to Science; a user's perspective of distributed computing projectsTortoise Trail BlogMay 10, 2008
Solve Puzzles for Science!; an overview of FolditAdPharm BlogMay 9, 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
Seismograph in your lap; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network projectEconomic TimesMay 4, 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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