| Recent Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.net | The Jakarta Post | May 10, 2008 |
| Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game; an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game | Howard Hughes Medical Institute News | May 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 Week | May 7, 2008 |
| Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance; an overview of Gómez Performance Network Peer | TMCNet | May 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) project | Interactions.org | April 24, 2008 |
| Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...; an overview of distributed computing projects | Eagle Connection Blog | April 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. | ExtremeTech | April 16, 2008 |
| First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray (login required) | Stardust@Home | April 15, 2008 |
| Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age; the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries | ICT Results | April 14, 2008 |
| Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure; money and computing power cannot solve every problem | New York Times | April 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 Internet | Business Standard | April 8, 2008 |
| Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | The Inquirer | April 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 disease | International Science Grid this Week | April 2, 2008 |
| Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | Wired Magazine | March 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@Home | New Scientist Space | March 31, 2008 |
| Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research | InformationWeek | March 24, 2008 |
| Building Enzymes from Scratch; Rosetta@home was used to create two enzymes not found in nature | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | March 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 Kurzweil | International Science Grid this Week | March 19, 2008 |
| How low can a Sudoku go?; an overview of the Sudoku project | International Science Grid this Week | March 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 data | LunchoverIP | March 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 warming | Scramento Bee | March 8, 2008 |
| Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers; an overview of BOINC and volunteer computing | Technology News | March 4, 2008 |
| Idle computers are kept busy scanning the skies; an overview of SETI@home and BOINC | News Letter | March 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 computing | Popular Science | March 3, 2008 |
| Your computer can help science with BOINC; an overview of BOINC and distributed computing projects | Internetspotter.com | March 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 grids | International Science Grid this Week | February 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 Week | February 27, 2008 |
| Stardust@Home Team Extracts First Particle Track from Stardust Collector | The Planetary Society | February 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@home | globeandmail.com | February 15, 2008 |
| Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users; one million Sony PlaySation 3 owners have signed up for Folding@home | Gamasutra | February 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." | IBM | January 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 month | Michael Graham Richard | January 27, 2008 |
| The real antivirus programs; an overview of disease-fighting distributed computing projects such as D2OL | Thinggamajiggy Blog | January 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 Week | January 23, 2008 |
| A Warm Welcome for Android; the GridGain project will turn Google Android platform-based cell phones into a computing grid | MSNBC | January 23, 2008 |
| Speaking of Science: The science of sleeping computers; an overview of distributed computing projects | The Daily of the University of Washington | January 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@home | EETimes | January 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, 2008 | Best Syndication | January 3, 2008 |
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