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Nouveau Niche: Meet Cory Doctorow: Disney freak, science-fiction novelist and self-described "happiest geek on Earth." His peer-to-peer dream is to help obscure artists find their audience; a good overview of the OpenCola projectThe Industry StandardOctober 23, 2000
Distributed Computing Pioneers Join Entropia's Scientific Advisory Board; good background on grid computing conceptsEntropiaOctober 16, 2000
SETI@home Releases its 3.0 ClientSETI@homeOctober 4, 2000
Big science gets a hand from home computersThe Boston Globe OnlineOctober 3, 2000
United Devices Releases Beta Software Agent: Individuals Can Now Help Power Scientific DiscoveryUnited DevicesOctober 2, 2000
Porivo Technologies Launches the Porivo PEER: Distributed Computing Technology Harnesses Spare Computing Capacity Across the InternetPorivo TechnologiesOctober 2, 2000
"Cycles for Cycles Sweepstakes" Offers Cool Prizes for Spare Computing CapacityPorivo TechnologiesOctober 2, 2000
Wholesale Computation: Companies want to sell your computer's spare processing time. Are there buyers?Scientific AmericanOctober, 2000
The Grid: A Computer Web for Astrophysics and MoreSpace.comSeptember 28, 2000
Entropia and The Scripps Research Institute Accelerate Pace of AIDS Drug Research Via Peer-to-Peer ComputingEntropiaSeptember 26, 2000
Protein Fiends Join the FoldWired NewsSeptember 26, 2000
Entropia Powers Peer-to-Peer Computing With Commercial Release of Entropia 2000EntropiaSeptember 12, 2000
The Quadrillionth Bit of Pi is '0'!PiHex - A distributed effort to calculate PiSeptember 11, 2000
Entropia's version 2.0 client is now available.entropia.comSeptember 7, 2000
Buddy, can you spare some processing time?Cnet.com newsSeptember 1, 2000
Supercomputers Track Human GenomeThe New York Times (free subscription required to access articles)August 28, 2000
Tim O'Reilly: The Web is a Giant SupercomputerZDNet Inter@ctive WeekAugust 28, 2000
Intel Says: Think Like Napster more detailed information about Intel's Peer-to-Peer visionWired NewsAugust 24, 2000
Intel Pushes For Peer-To-Peer Networking Standards Intel has formed a Peer-to-Peer Working Group to define standards for distributed computing: 18 companies have signed upNewsbytesAugust 24, 2000
Power in Numbers An overview article with interviews of some top people at EntropiaSignOn San DiegoAugust 15, 2000
Screensavers could save livesBBC NewsAugust 8, 2000
SETI@home finds funding out thereMercury CenterAugust 8, 2000
Waste Not, Want NotCIO MagazineAugust 1, 2000
You Got the Power Another good overview of the current players in the distributed computing projects market, with lots of interviewsWired MagazineAugust, 2000
Parabon Computation and National Cancer Institute to Collaboratively Test New Kind of Computing Power for Analyzing Some Types of Cancer DataParabon ComputationJuly 25, 2000
distributed.net has restarted its OGR-24 contest as of midnight (GMT), July 13, 2000. July 13, 2000
Popular Power has released version 0.2.0 of its distributed client. New features: a Linux version of the client; support for HTTP proxy servers. July 7, 2000
OK, What's NUG30 Times Pi? (a 32-year-old math problem was solved using the Condor system, a computational grid)Wired NewsJuly 6, 2000
IT on the 'Outer Limits'ComputerworldJuly 3, 2000
A New Income Source for GeeksWired NewsJune 29, 2000
United Devices Secures Seti@home FounderZDNet NewsJune 20, 2000
Turning Downtime into CashSan Francisco GateJune 19, 2000
The People's SupercomputerDiscovery.comMay 25, 2000
The latest GRISK project is complete! The project found new 5-dimensional lattice rules of degree 10 that are better than any previously known. May 18, 2000
Happy first birthday SETI@home! May 17, 2000
Casino-21 Project: Going for a Weather JackpotWashington PostApril 27, 2000
Power to the PC: Distributed computing over the Internet goes commercialScientific AmericanApril, 2000
Great Computations: Owners of home computers join researchers in cracking problems and crunching dataSciece News OnlineMarch 4, 2000
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