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| Is Distributed Computing A Crime?: A computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in a Georgia prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission from his boss. Prosecutors say its justice, others aren't so sure | SecurityFocus | December 20, 2001 |
| A Prime Discovery; 213,466,917 - 1 was discovered to be prime on November 14, 2001 | Grid Computing Planet | December 17, 2001 |
| Sengent Teams With Sun Microsystems in Effort to Rapidly Accelerate Identification of Drugs Against Biological Weapons: Sengent's Launch Last Week of Its Drug Design and Optimization Lab Against Bioterrorism Has Drawn a Significant Positive Response From The Public and Corporate Sectors | Sun Microsystems | December 17, 2001 |
| Researchers Discover Largest Multi-Million-Digit Prime Using Entropia Distributed Computing Grid: 213,466,917-1 is now the Largest Known Prime | mersenne.org | December 6, 2001 |
| Sun Opens New Processor Design Compute Ranch: New Facility Underscores Commitment to Keeping UltraSPARC(TM) Product Line At The Head of Its Class | Yahoo! Finance | November 30, 2001 |
| Virtul Astronomy: Now Anyone Can Make a Discovery | SPACE.com | November 20, 2001 |
| Famed Lab Seeks Big Grid; CERN is launching the European DataGRID project to process data from its new supercollider | Wired News | November 20, 2001 |
| (Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found; Mersenne prime number #39 (3.5 million digits long) has been found but not yet verified | Slashdot | November 14, 2001 |
| Intel Backs Protein Project; Intel will support the Folding@Home project | Wired News | October 6, 2001 |
| Seti@home Expands Its Back Yard: SETI@Home will increase the band of electromagnetic spectrum it analyzes and will look at 20 times more data | Wired News | October 6, 2001 |
| Parabon Announces Strategic Agreement with Celera: Next Generation Distributed Computing Solutions To Accelerate Proteomics Research | Parabon Computation | October 23, 2001 |
| Beyond the Browser: Rediscovering the Role of the Desktop in a Net-centric World | Fourth World | September 26, 2001 |
| The Little Screensaver That Could; a good overview of Folding@Home and its progress so far | Wired News | September 21, 2001 |
| Devices Unite to Find Drugs; a good overview of United Devices and its progress so far | Wired News | September 21, 2001 |
| Who's Been Using Your PC?; through "parasitic computing," someone could use your Internet-connected PC for distributed computing without your knowledge | Nature | August 30, 2001 |
| Beyond the Web: an interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch; the founder of Gridware talks about the current and future directions of grid computing | Sun Microsystems, Inc. | August 17, 2001 |
| Making P2P Interoperable: The Jxta story | developerWorks | August 14, 2001 |
| A Grid of Supercomputers; U.S. taxpayers get to spend US$53 million to do projects that we volunteers are already doing for free | Wired News | August 9, 2001 |
| I.B.M. Making a Commitment to Next Phase of the Internet; IBM begins a grid computing initiative | New York Times | August 2, 2001 |
| DALi Announces Availability of Largest, Distributed Artificial-Life Platform; DALiWorld creates a virtual ocean on users' computers around the world | Los Angeles Technology News | July 30, 2001 |
| Colon Cancer Alliance Supporters Compute Against Cancer: Parabon's Fundraising Program Helps Bring the Voice of Survivors to Cancer Research | Parabon Computation | July 24, 2001 |
| Sun Microsystems Makes Sun(TM) Grid Engine Software Available To Open Source Community: Sun Works With CollabNet to Continue Its Strong Support of Open Computing And Encourage Adoption of Powerful Grid Computing Model | Yahoo! Finance | July 23, 2001 |
| Tackling Puzzles PC by PC: Millions volunteer their home and office computers to crunch data over the Net to aid scientific and medical studies. For some, it's a heated competition. | Los Angeles Times | July 12, 2001 |
| Use P2P, Go to Jail. Any Questions? | O'Reilly P2P | July 10, 2001 |
| Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000; the State of Georgia prosecutes a distributed.net user for running RC5 on the school computers he configured for them two years ago | Slashdot | July 8, 2001 |
| Pin a Red Ribbon on Your Computer; a short overview of some of the medical distributed computing projects | Kiplinger's Personal Finance | July, 2001 |
| Putting the Profit in Internet-based DS (I am quoted in this article) | IEEE Distributed Systems Online | July, 2001 |
| Workers' search for aliens irks TVA Warning issued on use of computers | The Knoxville News-Sentinel | June 16, 2001 |
| Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit | The New York Times | June 3, 2001 |
| SETI PROJECT TURNS DOWN ALIEN HELP: Extraterrestrial Search "Going Just Fine" Without Extraterrestrial Interference (satire) | SatireWire | June, 2001 |
| Invaders exploit SETI@home: Mischief-makers harvest e-mail addresses for mass mailing | MSNBC | May 30, 2001 |
| The Search for E.T. Yields Earthly Cheats | The New York Times | May 24, 2001 |
| Use your PC to fight cancer, hunt aliens and more; a good overview of the current popular projects | CNN Europe | May 21, 2001 |
| Computing for Cancer Research: Screensaver program allows for computational chemistry research on "virtual supercomputer" | The Scientist | May 14, 2001 |
| Calling All PCs: Biotech: Home computers help to find a cure for disease | Technology Review | May, 2001 |
| Distributed Computing Software Now Available for Linux: Linux Users Help Build the Most Powerful, On-Demand Computing Platform; information about Parabon's new Linux client | Parabon Computation | April 24, 2001 |
| Entropia Powers Financial Experts' Critical Research into Stock Market Volatility: Computationally intense research made possible by Entropia's global grid of PCs | Entropia | April 5, 2001 |
| SETI founder speaks about Intel P2P cancer project | The Register | April 5, 2001 |
| Philanthropy Redefined; a negative, badly-researched opinion piece about United Devices' new cancer research project | Slashdot | April 3, 2001 |
| Screensaver helps fight against cancer: a good overview of the official release of United Devices' cancer fighting project | Yahoo! Finance | April 3, 2001 |
| Mr. P. and the Crunchy Desktop: Mr. P. explores the notion of leaving on your computer 24x7 so outsiders can borrow your spare cycles. It's nice to share--but not always (downloadable PDF file) | Server/Workstation Expert | April, 2001 |
| Business Computing Isn't Where The Action Is Going to Be: "Scientific computing is going to be where the action is" | O'Reilly Network | March 25, 2001 |
| It's lights out at Popular Power; selfish venture capitalists, not the distributed computing market, killed Popular Power | Red Herring | March 22, 2001 |
| Distributed computing loses luster; the demise of Popular Power (article no longer available) | Yahoo! News | March 19, 2001 |
| Home computers help scientists; highlights Parabon Computation's cancer research project | 50Plus.com | March 14, 2001 |
| Virtual Supercomputers Sign Up for Business: Vendors orchestrate thousands of PCs to tackle truly tough problems | Technology Review | March 13, 2001 |
| Sharing the power: Peer-to-peer technology draws supercomputing power from home PCs | The San Diego Union-Tribune | March 13, 2001 |
| The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?: the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving | Wired News | March 12, 2001 |
| PCs of the World, Unite!: Startup Entropia, and others, hope to solve vexing problems by pooling millions of underused computers into powerful networks | Business Week Online Daily Briefing | March 9, 2001 |
| Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower | The New York Times | March 8, 2001 |
| Saving Lives with P2P: With distributed computing, scientists improve vaccines, research cancer, share medical records; good information on Popular Power's flu vaccine project and Parabon's cancer research | OpenP2P.com | March 1, 2001 |
| Distributed Computing - the SETI@home project: Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem | Ariadne | March, 2001 |
| The search for E.T. has been put on hold, apparently by low-tech vandals | CNET.com Tech News | February 28, 2001 |
| Distributed computing harnesses power of the Web | CNN.com | February 26, 2001 |
| Nearly 3 million volunteers join search for alien life | Salon.com | February 25, 2001 |
| Joy Poses JXTA Initiative: Pushing the Boundaries of Distributed Computing; Sun Microsystems' Bill Joy discusses his new JAVA- and JINI-based distributed computing platform at the O'Reilly P-2-P Conference | java.sun.com | February 22, 2001 |
| Parabon Computation's Compute Against CancerSM Program Speeds Analysis of Protein Folding: Parabon Provides Critical Resources to Renowned University of Maryland Researchers | Parabon Computation | February 20, 2001 |
| Genome Effort Hits Home; a detailed article about the Genome@home project | Wired News | February 17, 2001 |
| Peer-to-Peer Show Begins Without Napster: Conference highlights larger potential of distributed-computing methods | Wired News | February 16, 2001 |
| Entropia Selected by SolidSpeed to Optimize Web Site Measurement Services, Announced at the O'Reilly Peer-To-Peer Conference: Entropia's distributed computing grid provides SolidSpeed's Probester customers with Web site 'proof of performance' | Entropia | February 15, 2001 |
| Cheaters Bow to Peer Pressure | Wired News | February 15, 2001 |
| Porivo Technologies Launches First Web Performance Testing Application Powered by Peer-to-Peer Distributed Computing Technology: Porivo's real-world Web performance testing service utilizes spare computing capacity from a distributed network of PCs | Porivo Technologies | February 14, 2001 |
| Entropia Announces 3rd Generation Distributed Computing Platform at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference: Entropia 3000 server and client software bring unprecedented security and benefits | Entropia | February 13, 2001 |
| Parabon and CCNetwork Inaugurate Partnership during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month | Parabon Computation | February 6, 2001 |
| Projects with Power to Burn: California's power crisis is having little effect on distributed computing projects | Wired News | February 6, 2001 |
| Juno Pulls Out All the Starts; Juno Online will pay for its free ISP by requiring users to run distributed computing projects for it | Wired News | February 2, 2001 |
| Sun Announces Sun Grid Engine 5.2 Software for the Linux Platform | Yahoo! Finance | January 31, 2001 |
| Gnutella puts up fight for Web elite; Gnutella2 will not only have file sharing, it will have a plug-in for distributed computing applications | CNET.com Tech News | January 29, 2001 |
| CPUs For Rent: Broadband connection fires up distributed computing; highlights DataSynapse | Broadband Week | January 22, 2001 |
| Porivo Technologies and The Daily Jolt Extend Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Computing Technology to Nationwide Campus Network | Porivo Technologies | January 17, 2001 |
| Parabon Sweepstakes A Win For Cancer Research: Sweepstakes Winner Donates Proceeds to Cancer Treatment Research Foundation | Parabon Computation | January 9, 2001 |
| The CPU Cure; a good overview of the FightAIDS@home project | Wired Magazine | January, 2001 |
| Popular Power Builds One of the World's Largest Distributed Computing Platforms on BEA WebLogic Server: New Distributed Platform to Be Used to Optimize Flu Vaccines and Perform Other Massively Computation-Intensive Jobs | Popular Power | January, 2001 |
| SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI; in-depth information about the SETI@home project by members of the SETI@home development team | IEEE Computer Society | January, 2001 |
| No Alien Idea: How Distributed Computing will Change the Web | ZDNet | December 27, 2000 |
| Zeroing In on Catalan's Conjecture: a new distributed computing project is working to solve this problem | Science News Online | December 23, 2000 |
| Seti: Is Anybody Out There?: the current state of the project and some info about the back-end processing just beginning | Wired news | December 22, 2000 |
| SETI@Home Breaks 500,000 years | Slashdot | December 20, 2000 |
| Parabon Powers the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation: Compute Against CancerSM Program Accelerates Discovery and Funds Research | Parabon Computation | December 18, 2000 |
| Come together, right now, over P2P: Popular Power will pay to borrow your computer and make the world a better place | salon.com | December 14, 2000 |
| Project Uses Simulations to Research Flu Vaccines; a short overview of Popular Power and its flu vaccine project/a> | The New York Times | December 14, 2000 |
| Computing co-ops: Will distributed computing increase network bottlenecks or help eliminate them? | TelecomClick | December 11, 2000 |
| Net Monitoring Service Pays Users: information about Distributed Science's first for-profit project for Envive | Wired News | December 11, 2000 |
| Home PCs teaming up to do research on proteins: good background info on Folding@home | Mercury News | December 7, 2000 |
| Distributed computing latest venture capital darling | Yahoo! | December 6, 2000 |
| Coming Soon: The Earth as Planetary Computer | Silicon Valley | December 5, 2000 |
| OpenCOLA seeks a new world order, one with OpenCOLA at the center | Red Herring Magazine | December 4, 2000 |
| Top Ten Trends 2001: Trend Number One: Computing: Distributed computing redefines computer networks, underpinning innovation, company formation, and investments. | Red Herring Magazine | December 4, 2000 |
| SETI@home has the Guinness world record for largest computation, set in July, 2000 with 300 billion billion floating point operations | Guinness Book of World Records | December, 2000 |
| Peer Review; a good review of the current state of peer-to-peer computing | WEBtechniques | December, 2000 |
| Envive Partners With Distributed Science, Inc. To Use Peer-To-Peer Technology For Web Performance Testing And Monitoring | Yahoo! | November 30, 2000 |
| Computer and Internet Pioneers Forest Baskett and Stephen Crocker Join Scientific Advisory Board of Entropia | entropia | November 30, 2000 |
| distributed.net and United Devices Join Forces: New Strategic Alliance Set to Shake up the Industry | distributed.net | November 27, 2000 |
| United Devices and distributed.net Join Forces: United Devices to Endow distributed.net Charity | United Devices | November 27, 2000 |
| Sharing Power | Forbes | November 27, 2000 |
| New Life for Peer-to-peer Computing | InformationWeek | November 20, 2000 |
| Companies create way to put idle PCs to work through Net | USA Today | November 17, 2000 |
| Distributed Computing; argues for distributed computing as a great use for all the extra CPU cycles from your overclocked CPU (and just happens to mention this site. :-) Thanks for the recommendation Justin!) | overclockers.com | November 17, 2000 |
| Envive Selects Entropia's Peer-to-Peer Technology to Enhance Web Performance Testing and Monitoring | Entropia | November 16, 2000 |
| For United Devices, Sharing is Good | LocalBusiness.com | November 15, 2000 |
| Into the Brave New World of Distributed Computing; an overview of DataSynapse | Silicon Alley Daily | November 14, 2000 |
| Class Acts: Centrata: Centrata bets big on Web-based distributed services | Business 2.0 | November 14, 2000 |
| Start-up to launch distributed computing service; information about DataSynapse, a new distributed computing startup | Yahoo! | November 13, 2000 |
| Load Testing Uses Distributed PCs; Exodus Communications will use the United Devices platform to load-test websites | Internet Week | November 13, 2000 |
| Peer-To-Peer Networks Take On A Testing Role: Exodus Communications to use the technology to stress-test customers' Web sites | Information Week | November 13, 2000 |
| Entropia Creates Largest Computing Resource Ever Available to Academic Scientists: Entropia to donate computing power to NSF NPACI and Alliance via SDSC and NCSA, comparable to 10x the aggregated annual capacity of the leading academic supercomputing sites in the nation | Entropia | November 9, 2000 |
| Exodus Announces Enhanced Web Site Testing Through United Devices: New Platform Allows Various Testing Methods of Web Interaction for Enhanced Customer Experience | United Devices | November 6, 2000 |
| Parabon Announces General Availability of First Commercial Internet Computing Platform at SC2000: Scalable Distributed Computing Platform Now Available to Any Desktop | Parabon Computation | November 6, 2000 |
| Another piece of pi from B.C. math whiz | National Post Online | November 3, 2000 |
| Distributed Computing, for Profit; talks about United Devices and Porivo, and the possibility of a commercial client from distributed.net | Internet World | November 3, 2000 |
| Dawn of a New Species?; a good summary of the GOLEM@Home project | Scientific American | November, 2000 |
| First Macintosh Version of Commercial Distributed Computing Software Launches:Popular Power Lets Mac Users Donate or Sell Spare Computing Cycles | Popular Power | October 27, 2000 |
| 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 project | The Industry Standard | October 23, 2000 |
| Distributed Computing Pioneers Join Entropia's Scientific Advisory Board; good background on grid computing concepts | Entropia | October 16, 2000 |
| SETI@home Releases its 3.0 Client | SETI@home | October 4, 2000 |
| Big science gets a hand from home computers | The Boston Globe Online | October 3, 2000 |
| United Devices Releases Beta Software Agent: Individuals Can Now Help Power Scientific Discovery | United Devices | October 2, 2000 |
| Porivo Technologies Launches the Porivo PEER: Distributed Computing Technology Harnesses Spare Computing Capacity Across the Internet | Porivo Technologies | October 2, 2000 |
| "Cycles for Cycles Sweepstakes" Offers Cool Prizes for Spare Computing Capacity | Porivo Technologies | October 2, 2000 |
| Wholesale Computation: Companies want to sell your computer's spare processing time. Are there buyers? | Scientific American | October, 2000 |
| The Grid: A Computer Web for Astrophysics and More | Space.com | September 28, 2000 |
| Entropia and The Scripps Research Institute Accelerate Pace of AIDS Drug Research Via Peer-to-Peer Computing | Entropia | September 26, 2000 |
| Protein Fiends Join the Fold | Wired News | September 26, 2000 |
| Entropia Powers Peer-to-Peer Computing With Commercial Release of Entropia 2000 | Entropia | September 12, 2000 |
| The Quadrillionth Bit of Pi is '0'! | PiHex - A distributed effort to calculate Pi | September 11, 2000 |
| Entropia's version 2.0 client is now available. | entropia.com | September 7, 2000 |
| Buddy, can you spare some processing time? | Cnet.com news | September 1, 2000 |
| Supercomputers Track Human Genome | The New York Times (free subscription required to access articles) | August 28, 2000 |
| Tim O'Reilly: The Web is a Giant Supercomputer | ZDNet Inter@ctive Week | August 28, 2000 |
| Intel Says: Think Like Napster more detailed information about Intel's Peer-to-Peer vision | Wired News | August 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 up | Newsbytes | August 24, 2000 |
| Power in Numbers An overview article with interviews of some top people at Entropia | SignOn San Diego | August 15, 2000 |
| Screensavers could save lives | BBC News | August 8, 2000 |
| SETI@home finds funding out there | Mercury Center | August 8, 2000 |
| Waste Not, Want Not | CIO Magazine | August 1, 2000 |
| You Got the Power Another good overview of the current players in the distributed computing projects market, with lots of interviews | Wired Magazine | August, 2000 |
| Parabon Computation and National Cancer Institute to Collaboratively Test New Kind of Computing Power for Analyzing Some Types of Cancer Data | Parabon Computation | July 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 News | July 6, 2000 |
| IT on the 'Outer Limits' | Computerworld | July 3, 2000 |
| A New Income Source for Geeks | Wired News | June 29, 2000 |
| United Devices Secures Seti@home Founder | ZDNet News | June 20, 2000 |
| Turning Downtime into Cash | San Francisco Gate | June 19, 2000 |
| The People's Supercomputer | Discovery.com | May 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 Jackpot | Washington Post | April 27, 2000 |
| Power to the PC: Distributed computing over the Internet goes commercial | Scientific American | April, 2000 |
| Great Computations: Owners of home computers join researchers in cracking problems and crunching data | Sciece News Online | March 4, 2000 |