| Archived Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| 2004 | ||
| What's Next After the CPU?; how distributed computing is changing the role of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) in computing | ElectronicNews | October 22, 2004 |
| Getting A Grip On Grid Computing: More companies are farming out jobs to groups of networked computers | BusinessWeek | October 18, 2004 |
| The goods for grid: Broad IT knowledge, experience and an open mind are the keys to harnessing grid computing | Techworld | October 18, 2004 |
| State Employee Fired For Using State Property To Search For Aliens; an Ohio, U.S. state employee was fired for running SETI@home on a state-owned computer, even though the employee only ran it outside of business hours, when the computer was not being used | WCPO.com News (Cincinnati, Ohio) | October 8, 2004 |
| One grid to rule them all; an overview of the global computing grid being developed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, starting in 2007 | Economist.com | October 7, 2004 |
| Building The Grid; an overview of current research in wireless/mobile computing grids | TheFeature | October 5, 2004 |
| Your PC Can Contribute With Google Compute | WebProNews | September 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark | Slashdot | September 21, 2004 |
| Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing; Sun Microsystems, Inc. will rent customers supercomputing power for US$1 per CPU per hour in its Secure N1 Grid program | TechRepublic | September 21, 2004 |
| World's Largest Working Computing Grid: This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid | PhysOrg.com | September 5, 2004 |
| Reports of SETI@home Extraterrestrial Signal Highly Exaggerated; SETI@home team members say the over-hyped possible alien signal is not an alien signal and that they are not studying it further | The Planetary Society | September 2, 2004 |
| Astronomers deny ET signal report | BBC News | September 2, 2004 |
| Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away; SETI@home may have discovered an interesting radio signal | NewScientist.com | September 1, 2004 |
| Is Encryption Doomed?: Our entire information society rests on a fragile foundation that mathematicians are racing to dismantle. | Technology Review | September 1, 2004 |
| Distributive computing spreads out: UC researchers tap idle PCs to tackle scientific mysteries; an overview of the BOINC platform | The Oakland Tribune | August 30, 2004 |
| Home Computers Aid Efforts To Develop New Medications, Stanford Researcher Reports; the Folding@home project is now producing results accurate enough to be useful to pharmaceutical companies | Science Daily | August 26, 2004 |
| Research reveals flaw in storage algorithm; an overview of the discovery of a flaw in the MD5 encryption algorithm, and its implications | ARNnet | August 25, 2004 |
| Scientists from Different Fields Line Up to Join the BOINC Family; a good overview of current and upcoming projects which (will) use the BOINC platform | The Planetary Society | August 24, 2004 |
| SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken; the MD5 encryption algorithm, for which the MD5CRK project was trying to find a collision, was broken by another group of researchers | Slashdot | August 16, 2004 |
| Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing; Earth's radio signals will disappear within 100 years: alien civilizations are more likely to use lasers or some other signal besides radio | NewScientist.com | August 9, 2004 |
| Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0; the Beowulf Project is 10 years old | Wired News | August 6, 2004 |
| Multi-Beam Receiver Promises New Vistas for SETI Research; a new receiver at the Arecibo radio telescope will allow the telescope to receive signals from 7 points in the sky simultaneously, which will allow SETI research to study more of the sky more quickly and in a wider frequency band | The Planetary Society | August 4, 2004 |
| Do You See a Pattern Here?: An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoit Mandelbrot, father of the fractal; Mandelbrot suggests using distributed computing to search "for patterns in financial markets." | Wired News | August, 2004 |
| Sheep in Shining Armor: Let your PC join an army of several million others and save the world--while you sleep; a current overview of distributed computing projects, and of grid.org and Electric Sheep in particular | Discover Magazine | August, 2004 |
| NIST Proposes Abandoning DES | Slashdot | July 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles | Slashdot | July 7, 2004 |
| Public to help scientists predict the real climate of The Day After Tomorrow; will study the climate science behind the movie The Day After Tomorrow | climateprediction.net | June 22, 2004 |
| Mersenne.org Project Discovers New Largest Known Prime Number, 224,036,583 - 1: Project Leaders Believe $100,000 Award Within Reach | mersenne.org | May 28, 2004 |
| Mass Grid Computing Around the Corner?; a discussion about what is needed to encourage mass adoption of grid and distributed computing | Slashdot | May 18, 2004 |
| Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians: Rescoring the Reobservations; an update on SETI@home's analysis of its 2003 reobserved candidate signals | The Planetary Society | May 17, 2004 |
| Grid watch: GGF and grid security; an overview of the Global Grid Forum's work on grid security | IBM | May 13, 2004 |
| Internet computing tackles Malaria; Find-a-Drug's new project to find an anti-Malaria drug | Find-a-Drug | May 10, 2004 |
| NETI to Examine Net's Strengths; an overview of the NETI@home project | Wired News | April 27, 2004 |
| Mathematicians From Around the World Collaborate to Solve Latest RSA Factoring Challenge | RSA Security | April 27, 2004 |
| Scientists develop sophisticated new simulation method for protein folding; Folding@home has successfully modeled the role of water molecules in protein folding for the first time | Stanford University | April 23, 2004 |
| Tapping the Matrix, Part 1; an excellent overview of distributed computing, and technical information about implementing it | O'Reilly openp2p.com | April 16, 2004 |
| Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles?; a short-term project is re-running a simulation of 29 billion photons in a room, which produced an image for SIGGRAPH 94; the new image should be cleaner and sharper because computers are 3,000 times more powerful than they were in 1994 | Slashdot | April 13, 2004 |
| Computing Power to the People; in-depth coverage of the results of the Flashmob I project | Wired News | April 5, 2004 |
| The God Particle and the Grid; an overview of CERN's upcoming grid project to look for the Higgs boson particle | Wired | April, 2004 |
| California Techies Try to Make Supercomputer; the results of the Flashmob I project | WJLA - ABC 7 News | April 3, 2004 |
| General Relativity @ Home!; news about the upcoming Einstein@Home project | SciScoop | April 1, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| Internet computing finds more cancer growth inhibitors: Find-a-Drug "has found more molecules which inhibit the growth of cancer cells" | Find-a-Drug | March 22, 2004 |
| Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation Funds Next Phase in Construction of the World's Newest Radio Telescope Array | SETI Institute | March 18, 2004 |
| Hey, Gang, Let's Make Our Own Supercomputer; on April 3, 2004, students in Patrick Miller's do-it-yourself supercomputing graduate course will assemble the first "flash mob supercomputer" in the University of San Francisco gym | New York Times | February 23, 2004 |
| Michael Hart: changing the world through e-books; an overview of Michael Gutenberg and his project, Project Gutenberg | Edition Actu | February 15, 2004 |
| Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM; the results of ChessBrain's world-record attemp game | Slashdot | February 3, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles | Slashdot | February 2, 2004 |
| Harnessing Distributed Computing Power using Open Source Tools; a white paper on using open-source tools to create distributed computing projects | ChessBrain.NET | February 1, 2004 |
| Do plants act like computers?; plants may regulate their "breathing" using a form of distributed computation | Nature | January 21, 2004 |
| The future of computing: The next big thing?; a comparison of utility and grid computing | The Economist | January 15, 2004 |
| Company gives equipment to SETI's grid computing project; Sun Microsystems donated hardware to the BOINC project to advance grid computing | Silicon Valley Biz Ink | January 2, 2004 |
| 2003 | ||
| The Interpretation of Dreams: An Explanation of the Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver | O'Reilly openp2p.com | December 22, 2003 |
| Software shares out spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC project, which will go live in January | New Scientist | December 21, 2003 |
| Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC; Sun Microsystems is donating computer servers to, and providing funding for, the BOINC project; also see Sun's press release | The Register | December 17, 2003 |
| RSA-576 Factored; this number was factored, but not by a public distributed computing project | MathWorld News | December 5, 2003 |
| Largest prime number ever is found; an overview of the GIMPS project's discovery of the 40th known Mersenne prime | New Scientist | December 3, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook | Slashdot | October 16, 2003 |
| The Cost of Distributed Client Computing?; a discussion of the costs (power consumption, hardware failure, etc.) of distributed computing for volunteers | Slashdot | October 15, 2003 |
| Casting a wider, deeper Net; an overview of the PlanetLab grid computing project | EE Times | October 13, 2003 |
| Huge computing power goes online; the private computing Grid which will process data from CERN's upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator project was just turned on | BBC News | September 30, 2003 |
| New and Improved SETI@home will Form the Backbone of Distributed Computing Network | The Planetary Society | September 25, 2003 |
| Huge Climate Experiment Starts Friday - All Welcome; an announcement of the September 12, 2003, start of the climateprediction.net project | Yahoo! News | September 11, 2003 |
| Getting More From a PC's Spare Time; an overview of distributed computing and particularly the BOINC platform | New York Times | September 11, 2003 |
| Circuit design evolving in distributed digital world; an overview of the Distributed Hardware Evolution Project | New Scientist | July 31, 2003 |
| SETI@home Update, July 18, 2003: Analyzing the Reobservations; an update on the processing of the reobserved candidate signals from SETI@home | The Planetary Society | July 18, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Coming Of Age: grid computing over the Internet is where the Internet was in 1994 | Slashdot | July 15, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing Economics; a study of the costs of grid and distributed computing | IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing Newsletter | July 12, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday | Slashdot | July 4, 2003 |
| How Practical Is Grid Computing?: Unless you are comfortable manipulating source code, not very.; grid computing from a CIO's perspective | CIO Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
| Find-A-Drug Attacks Aids With Grid Technology | GRIDtoday | July 1, 2003 |
| Donating CPU cycles for the greater good; an overview of distributed and grid computing (this article was one of a series on the top 20 trends in technology) | PC Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
| Internet computing finds cancer growth inhibitors; Find-a-Drug has found some potential cancer drugs | Find-a-Drug | June 30, 2003 |
| Japanese Test Grid Computing; a review of the Cell Computing project results | Australian IT | June 27, 2003 |
| PlanetLab 'Slices' Into Alternate Internet Universe: A consortium of universities and high-tech companies Tuesday formally launched a joint Internet-based test-bed platform for developing massive online services using distributed computing and overlay networks | internetnews.com | June 24, 2003 |
| Greetings from Tokyo: Notes from CCGrid 2003 | IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing Newsletter | June 1, 2003 |
| Supercomputing Made Simple: This summer new software will help researchers tap the unlimited power of idle PCs; a short summary of current popular projects, and a hint about BOINC | Popular Science | June, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing: Distributed Communities; an examination of distributed computing social groups, written by Howard Feldman of the Distributed Folding project | O'Reilly ONLamp.com | May 22, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Spreads to SARS; information about D2OL's SARS project | Wired News | April 30, 2003 |
| Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks; a new project is converting Project Gutenberg e-texts to audio books | Slashdot | April 20, 2003 |
| Security Flaw Spotted, Fixed In Seti@home Program; a security hole was found in the SETI@home client. A patch is available to fix the hole. | InformationWeek | April 8, 2003 |
| SETI-Sicherheitslucke: Bin da, wer noch?; a German-language article about a security hole found in the SETI@home client. See the Babelfish English translation of the article. | Der Spiegel | April 7, 2003 |
| SETI@home Completes Stellar Countdown, Observing Bonus Radio Sources; data were collected from 166 sources and will be analyzed by SETI@home's network of volunteers | The Planetary Society | March 25, 2003 |
| LookSmart bets on distributed computing; LookSmart bought Grub to improve its web search results | CNET Tech News | March 21, 2003 |
| Group resumes Xbox cracking project | CNET Tech News | March 12, 2003 |
| Signals to be rechecked in alien hunt; on March 18, SETI@home will have dedicated time at the Arecibo radio telescope to recheck its most promising candidate signals | MSNBC News | March 10, 2003 |
| Global Grids Analyze on Demand Brain Activity | GRID Today | March 10, 2003 |
| 'Honest Thief' provides clever solution to music-swapping issue; 'Honest Thief' will lease the distributed computing power of its music file-swapping network to allow users to swap files legally and to compensate the musicians whose files are swapped | USA Today | March 7, 2003 |
| Chinese start-up readies 64-bit processor; BLX IC Design Corp., Ltd. is designing the 500-MHz Godson-2 CPU, based on the MIPS instruction set, to be "the engine of a distributed grid computing network that will be used by public and private firms" in China | EE Times | March 5, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing for Wireless Microphones; distributed computing was used to determine the optimal frequency allocation for wireless microphones. This URL is a babelfish translation of the original article written in German | ORF ON Futurezone | March 3, 2003 |
| The ChessBrain Project Announces the Creation of the World's First Computational Grid Devoted to Computer Chess | ChessBrain | March 1, 2003 |
| Guided Google: A Search Engine Built From Grid Labs | GRID Today | March, 2003 |
| PlayStation 2 taps into grid computing; Butterfly.net will use IBM'supercomputing technology for a grid computing game network for the Sony Playstation 2 | CNet Tech News | February 26, 2003 |
| Is There Demand for On-Demand Supercomputing? | Yahoo! News | February 21, 2003 |
| MusicBrainz Launches Open Source Music Recognition Service | MusicBrainz | February 11, 2003 |
| Donate the Power of Your PC to Fight Smallpox: The Department of Defense and IBM are using grid computing to search for a cure to the smallpox virus--and you can help. | PC World | February 5, 2003 |
| IBM, United Devices And Accelrys Aid U.S. Department of Defence in Search for Smallpox Cure: Smallpox Research Grid Project to link more than two million computers | United Devices | February 5, 2003 |
| Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?): The mechanics of a universal library are simple. The tricky part: harnessing the free labor. | Wired | February, 2003 |
| Distributed Internet Backup System; distributed Internet-based peers can back up each others' data | Slashdot | January 31, 2003 |
| Random chat solves distributed problem; each peer in a distributed computing network can check other, random peers to ensure that it is synchronized | New Scientist | January 30, 2003 |
| Not Your Father's Encyclopedia; an overview of Wikipedia and its recent 100,000 article milestone | Wired News | January 28, 2003 |
| Grid vendors target corporate applications | NetworkWorldFusion | January 27, 2003 |
| I.B.M. to Announce Push on Grid Computing; an overview of IBM's plans to provide grid computing to business (free registration required to view article) | New York Times | January 26, 2003 |
| Mapping the Galaxy with SETI@home; while searching for alien radio signals, SETI@home is also creating the most detailed map of the distribution of hydrogen in our galaxy | The Planetary Society | January 24, 2003 |
| Scientists Giddy About the Grid; scientists are excited about the possibilities that grid computing will provide | Wired News | January 20, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Good for Business; companies are taking a bigger interest in grid computing | Wired News | January 16, 2003 |
| Group cracking Xbox 'for the public good'; another update on the NEO Project's Xbox challenge | ZDNet UK News | January 15, 2003 |
| Techies challenge Microsoft: Canadians recruit world's computer users to crack secret code for Xbox game system | The Globe and Mail | January 13, 2003 |
| HP To Demo Grid Computing: Exhibit will show how to manage programs written for Globus Toolkit using vendor's Utility Data Center Software | InformationWeek | January 13, 2003 |
| Globus Toolkit 3.0 Delivers Grid Standards; this version of Globus implements the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) | the globus project | January 13, 2003 |
| A Remarkable Dearth of Primes; information about Sierpinski numbers and Seventeen Or Bust | Science News Online | January 11, 2003 |
| IBM launches supercomputing on demand | The Register | January 9, 2003 |
| IBM Offers Processing on Demand; Wired News' version of the IBM supercomputing story | Wired News | January 9, 2003 |
| X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended; The NEO Project stopped the challenge for legal reasons | Slashdot | January 7, 2003 |
| PC army tackles Xbox security code | CNET Tech News | January 6, 2003 |
| Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project; The NEO Project is attempting to break a 2048-bit private key that Microsoft uses to sign Xbox media | Slashdot | January 5, 2003 |
| Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article | Wikipedia | January, 2003 |
| 2002 | ||
| 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 |
| Global computing for bioinformatics; an overview of distributed computing and its applications in bioinformatics, with a focus on the evolution@home project | Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol. 3, no. 4 (via ingenta) | December, 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 |
| 2001 | ||
| 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 |
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| 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 |
