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| Grid computing from Sun; an update on the features and capabilities of Sun Grid Engine | The Register | December 16, 2002 |
| The race to computerise biology; an overview of bioinformatics and a mention of grid/distributed computing's role in it | The Economist | December 12, 2002 |
| Computers' Shelf Life Gets Livelier: Gateway to Sell Harnessed Power of the PCs in Its Stores | The Washington Post | December 10, 2002 |
| SETI@home Prepares to Revisit its Best Signals; some time in 2003, SETI@Home will get exclusive use of the Arecibo radio telescope for one day to recheck its 100 most promising signals | The Planetary Society | December 4, 2002 |
| 'Grid Computing' Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing | The Chronicle | November 27, 2002 |
| gridMathematica announced; an overview and discussion about the grid-based version of the popular Mathematica software application | Slashdot | November 21, 2002 |
| Measuring Folding@Home's performance impact: Can folding proteins slow you down? | The Tech Report | November 11, 2002 |
| Just One Page a Day; Distributed Proofreaders gets Slashdotted and survives (and gets 15,000 pages proofread in one day instead of the usual 1,000) | Slashdot | November 8, 2002 |
| Math whiz cracks encryption code; results of the ECCp-109 project | MSNBC News | November 6, 2002 |
| Most Powerful Computer in Canada - for a Day; Canadian universities linked their computers for one day to solve a computation chemistry problem which would normally take six years to complete | Slashdot | November 3, 2002 |
| SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing; a detailed technical overview of the SETI@home project from a distributed computing perspective | Communications of the ACM | November, 2002 |
| Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home; some SETI@Home participants may be cheating, and damaging the project's reputation | ZDNet Australia | October 30, 2002 |
| SETI@home-Inspired Biology Project Publishes First Scientific Results; Folding@Home's recent success from a SETI@home perspective | The Planetary Society | October 28, 2002 |
| Malicious Distributed Computing; a "superworm,: a coordinated network of worm nodes could communicate with each other to "ensure optimal infection rates" | Slashdot | October 25, 2002 |
| University of Alberta builds supercomputer in a day: National hook-up to solve molecular chemistry question | Edmonton Journal | October 22, 2002 |
| Screensavers crack medical puzzle; another view of Folding@Home's recent success | BBC News | October 22, 2002 |
| World's fastest data network approved: an overview of the TeraGrid project | the inquirer | October 21, 2002 |
| PC Network Deciphers How Proteins Fold: Folding@Home has successfully simulated the folding of a small protein | San Francisco Chronicle | October 21, 2002 |
| Donated computer power unfolds complex shape of proteins | CBC News | October 21, 2002 |
| Together PCs forecast fold | Nature | October 21, 2002 |
| Computer simulation yields disease insight | United Press International | October 20, 2002 |
| Virtual proteins unravel real puzzles; interesting side-note: future versions of Folding@Home and climateprediction.net may share the BOINC platform with SETI@Home | MSNBC News | October 20, 2002 |
| Internet PCs to Counter Bioterrorism: Find-a-Drug has started a project to find bioterrorism antidotes | Find-a-Drug | October 15, 2002 |
| Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home: a funding crisis could shut down SETI@Home; (sources at SETI@Home say there is no funding crisis and that it's always difficult to get funding) | ZDNet Australia | October 15, 2002 |
| Grid Iron: New grid networks put idle computing power to work; an overview of grid computing | Red Herring | October 11, 2002 |
| Codebusters Crack Encryption Key; more news about the RC5-64 contest | Wired News | October 7, 2002 |
| Gridbus Project Releases Grid Accounting Services Architecture; information about the new GridBank accounting infrastructure | Grid Computing Planet | October 3, 2002 |
| Library of Congress Taps the Grid; it's looking at using grid technology to manage its American Memory project containing 7.5 million digital records | Wired News | October 2, 2002 |
| Upgrades to Boost SETI@home Alien Search; an overview of the new software and of the "new" telescope the next phase of SETI@Home will use | Space.com | October 1, 2002 |
| Gómez Acquisition Of Porivo Technologies Creates World's Largest Internet Performance Monitoring Infrastructure | Gómez | September 30, 2002 |
| distributed.net Completes RC5-64 Project; the winning key was found July 14, 2002 and the message was "The unknown message is: some things are better left unread" | distributed.net | September 25, 2002 |
| JXTA-based P2P Toolkit Enables Utility Computing | Grid Computing Planet | September 17, 2002 |
| Grid Computing: Electrifying Web Services; an overview of the Open Grid Service Architecture (OSGA) | Web Services Journal | September 10, 2002 |
| Computer Grids Promise Leap in Computing Power | Yahoo! Finance | September 1, 2002 |
| University of Melbourne Expands Grid Work; more information about the Gridbus project | Grid Computing Planet | August 20, 2002 |
| The Gridbus Project: Enabling Service-Oriented Grid Computing and Business; information about the Gridbus project | GRIDtoday | August 19, 2002 |
| Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers; information about an upcoming mathematics distributed computing project | Slashdot | August 18, 2002 |
| Open Sourcers Say Grid is Good; news about corporate efforts in grid computing software development | Wired News | August 15, 2002 |
| Australian grid computing: Creating science fact | ZDNet Australia | August 9, 2002 |
| A primer on distributed computing | Kuro5hin | August 2, 2002 |
| Solving Problems at Arecibo; the new SETI@Home radio receiver was installed on July 24, 2002, and is collecting new data | The Planetary Society | August 1, 2002 |
| The Cell - Power for Playstation 3 and ...More; more information about the use of grid computing to make the PlayStation 3 up to 1000 times more powerful than the PlayStation 2 | PlaySation Reporter | July 22, 2002 |
| Distributed Chess Computing Project; a note about the new | Slashdot | June 9, 2002 |
| Bootcamp 225: screensavers; a short history of screensavers, and a short paragraph on how they are used for distributed computing | telegraph.co.uk | May 13, 2002 |
| Building a Worldwide Lexicon | O'Reilly Networks | May 10, 2002 |
| IBM brings grid computing to games | Yahoo! News | May 9, 2002 |
| Worldwide weather watchers wanted; an overview and updated of the climateprediction.com weather simulation project | BBC News | May 7, 2002 |
| KaZaA Sneakware Stirs Inside PCs; another article about the Altnet trojan distributed computing software hidden in KaZaA | CNN.com | May 7, 2002 |
| Now Anyone Can Discover a Comet; you can find undiscovered comets by looking at images from SOHO | Wired News | May 6, 2002 |
| KaZaA Users Brace for Hijack; the Altnet trojan distributed computing software hidden in KaZaA will be activated in about a month | The Age | May 3, 2002 |
| SETI@Home Project Nears Milestone | washingtonpost.com | April 29, 2002 |
| SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result (the user who returns that result will get US$500) | Slashdot | April 28, 2002 |
| Supercomputing '@Home' Paying Off for Other Research (a free subscription is required to view this article) | The New York Times | April 23, 2002 |
| How Do You Spell E.T. in Swahili?; another article about the World Wide Lexicon distributed human project | Wired News | April 10, 2002 |
| Distributed Program to Translate Many Languages: the World Wide Lexicon distributed human project will use human volunteers to translate text | New Scientist | April 2, 2002 |
| Stealth P2P Network Hides Inside Kazaa: hidden software could be used for distributed computing | CNET News | April 1, 2002 |
| Hosting Problems for distributed.net | Slashdot | March 26, 2002 |
| IBM to Link Government Computers in Powerful Grid | Yahoo! News | March 22, 2002 |
| Energy Dept., IBM to unveil Science Grid | CNET News | March 21, 2002 |
| PlayStation 3: The next generation; distributed computing could be used in the next PlayStation | CNET News | March 21, 2002 |
| Home PCs join together as virtual supercomputer | USA Today | March 19, 2002 |
| Sanger Institute Cracks Chromosome 20 With Grid Power | Grid Computing Planet | March 12, 2002 |
| Home PCs speed anthrax cure project | CNET News | March 8, 2002 |
| Software finds possible anthrax cures: data on 300,000 potential drugs handed over to officials | MSNBC | March 8, 2002 |
| Working the web: P2P technology: peer to peer technology is far more useful than just swapping music files | Guardian Unlimited | March 7, 2002 |
| India Joins Super (Grid) Powers | Wired News | March 5, 2002 |
| The Worldwide Computer: An operating system spanning the Internet would bring the power of millions of the world's Internet-connected PCs to everyone's fingertips; a good overview of how an ISOS (Internet-Scale Operating System) would work | Scientfic American | March 2, 2002 |
| Distributed Computing Newsgroup Approved | Enterprise News | March 1, 2002 |
| Mac Cluster's Last Stand?; Apple's G4 PowerMacs are powerful, but the wrong shape for stacking into clusters | Wired News | February 22, 2002 |
| 'Distributed' Web Projects Raise Security Issues | Newsbytes | February 21, 2002 |
| Grid computing luring mainstream backers; IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems are getting into the grid computing game | Yahoo! News | February 21, 2002 |
| The Grid Draws Its Battle Lines; an open-source project challenges Microsoft's .Net | Wired News | February 20, 2002 |
| Seti@Home Bandwidth Problems; SETI@Home doesn't have enough bandwidth to handle its 3 million volunteers | Slashdot | February 18, 2002 |
| The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science | Physics Today | February, 2002 |
| Distributed's New Word: Please; learn from McOwen's case: get permission before you run distributed software on someone else's computer | Wired News | January 24, 2002 |
| PCs tapped to help fight anthrax: a coalition of scientists and technology companies is asking people around the world to use their computers' extra processing power to help search for a cure for anthrax | CNN.com | January 22, 2002 |
| State drops distributed-computing dispute; David McOwen will pay just $2,100 and serve 80 hours of community service rather than face 30 years in jail | CNET News | January 17, 2002 |
| Toolset teams computers to design drugs | Technology Research News | January 16, 2002 |
| Investigating the "Fabric of the Universe"; SETI@Home data will be used to search for undiscovered pulsars | The Planetary Society | January 9, 2002 |
| GridSim Releases Java-based Grid Computing Toolkit | Grid Computing Planet | January 4, 2002 |
| Distributing the Search for Cures; a good overview of Sengent and its D2OL project | Wired News | January 3, 2002 |
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