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Playing the Science Game

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Foldit

Beyond Graphics--The Present and Future of GP-GPU

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home's new GPU client is an average of four times faster than the PS3 client and 40 times faster than the PC client

The brains behind the operation

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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 computing

Using Personal Computers to Solve Humanitarian Problems

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid

An armchair astronomer discovers something very odd

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Galaxy Zoo's recent discovery

Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a rebuttal to the "The End of Theory" article

Screensavers help University cancer research

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Cels@Home

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

in The Petabyte Age we can use massive amounts of data and processing, instead of scientific theories, to study the world around us

Grid computing boosts cancer research

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview and update of Cels@Home

Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part I)

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

astronomers around the world are taking interest in the Voorwerp object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant

Stanford releases folding client for Nvidia GPUs

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Folding@home can now run on Nvidia GPUs (i.e. graphics cards)

Scientists tap gaming's power

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

You, too, can help figure out proteins; an overview of Foldit

Join the search while you sleep

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of SETI@home

Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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.

SETI Researchers Gather At ASTRON For Search Beyond Beyond

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI

New Telescope to Hunt for Aliens

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI

LOFAR telescope used in search for extraterrestrial life?

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope could be used for SETI

IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Folding Proteins: Someone's Idea of Having Fun?

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Folding@home and Foldit

Video searching uses people power

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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 searchable

Computers crunch possible cures for cancer

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

computers in the student computer lab at Austin Community College are participating in the World Community Grid

DC.Ars: running the POEM@Home gauntlet

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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, 2008

IBM turns unused computers into grid to solve (some of) the world's problems

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a good overview of the World Community Grid

GTA4: Enabler of Life Sciences Research?

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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@home

Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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."

First WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins, ready for beta

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins

IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Join the Hunt for Super-Rice

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World

Hello, Einstein residence? Why yes, he's home!

Wed, 14 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Einstein@Home

Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Looking For Mars Polar Lander project

Gaming for Medical Research

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of Foldit

Your computers may help save climate

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of climateprediction.net

I'm Donating My Unused Computer Processing Power to Science

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

a user's perspective of distributed computing projects

Solve Puzzles for Science!

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Foldit

Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game

Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game

WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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.

Seismograph in your lap

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance

Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of G�mez Performance Network Peer

UK computing Grid "warming up for world's largest experiment"

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an update of the U.K.'s GridPP computing grid and its readiness for data from the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project

Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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.

First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries

Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

money and computing power cannot solve every problem

The age of the Grid

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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

Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

Money, infectious disease and Where's George?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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

Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@Home

Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Building Enzymes from Scratch

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Rosetta@home was used to create two enzymes not found in nature

Distributed computing and the Singularity

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

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

How low can a Sudoku go?

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Sudoku project

OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

"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

Project BudBurst wants you to track nature's changes for database

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of BOINC and volunteer computing

Idle computers are kept busy scanning the skies

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of SETI@home and BOINC

SETI's Other Coup

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

We might not have yet found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but SETI has more than proven its worth with its success in distributed computing

Your computer can help science with BOINC

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of BOINC and distributed computing projects

Evolving towards the future of science

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

genetic algorithms and grid computing; genetic algorithms are being used to optimize the scheduling of computing jobs for computing grids

Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

a history of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG)

Stardust@Home Team Extracts First Particle Track from Stardust Collector

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

How much is your wired world costing you?

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

an experiment to see how much electricity a PlayStation3 uses when it performs work for a distributed computing project such as Folding@home

Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 MST

one million Sony PlaySation 3 owners have signed up for Folding@home

Sifting through image library will help cancer fight

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

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."

Near Earth Objects: We Can't Beat the Odds Forever

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

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

The real antivirus programs

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of disease-fighting distributed computing projects such as D2OL

Opinion - Avalanche warning: the new challenges of the data grid

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

how (and for how long) can we store all of the data generated by distributed and grid computing projects?

A Warm Welcome for Android

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

the GridGain project will turn Google Android platform-based cell phones into a computing grid

Speaking of Science: The science of sleeping computers

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

an overview of distributed computing projects

Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

seven new receivers installed on the Arecibo radio telescope will provide 500 times more data for SETI@home

Wikia Search Open For Developers On Monday: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Calls For Transparency And Privacy In Engine

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:00:00 MST

Wikia Search's open-source codebase was opened to external developers on January 7, 2008