| Archived Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| 2006 | ||
| Distributed computing cracks Enigma code; an overview of M4 | CNET News | February 27, 2006 |
| SEC shuts down $50 mln Internet Ponzi scheme; 12dailypro.com, which was similar to many "click for charity" and "click for cash" websites, was discovered to be a Ponzi or pyramid scheme, and was shut down | Yahoo! News | February 27, 2006 |
| Oxford seeks PC users to help map climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | Yahoo! News | February 14, 2006 |
| Climate Change Model Harnesses Home Computers: The BBC, Britain's Meteorological Office, Oxford University, and the University of California at Berkeley on Tuesday launched a program, and software, to mobilize idle time of home computers to better predict climate change; a short overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | InformationWeek | February 14, 2006 |
| BBC wants your clock-cycles - to predict climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment and the BBC television programs associated with it, and a user's guide to the client software applicaton | HEXUS.lifestyle | February 14, 2006 |
| BBC links to huge climate project: The BBC is inviting viewers to join the world's biggest online climate prediction project; the BBC's overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | BBC News | February 14, 2006 |
| Computer downtime rising up to work on world's problems; an overview of the World Community Grid | TMCnet | February 10, 2006 |
| Networking computers to help combat disease; how grid computing is being used to find disease-fighting drugs | IST Results | January 23, 2006 |
| Public Tapped to Hunt for Stardust; an overview of Stardust@Home | Discovery Channel | January 12, 2006 |
| Stardust@Home: Help Find the Elusive Particles from Distant Suns!; an overview of Stardust@Home | The Planetary Society - News | January 11, 2006 |
| Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors; an overview of Stardust@Home | UC Berkeley News | January 10, 2006 |
| Stardust@Home: Searching for Cosmic Needles in a Haystack; an overview of Stardust@Home | The Planetary Society - News | January 10, 2006 |
| 2005 | ||
| Alien search merges with other home projects: SETI@home is getting a boost in computer power; an overview of SETI@home's migration to BOINC | Nature | December 15, 2005 |
| IBM's World Grid Draws Members, Fights AIDS; an overview of the World Community Grid and its new participation in fightAIDS@home | InformationWeek | December 2, 2005 |
| SETI's Next Generation Telescope Array; an overview of SETI and its next-generation receiver, the Allen Telescope Array | OhmyNews | December 1, 2005 |
| Have an 'Ear' to the Sky With SETI@Home; an overview of SETI@home | OhmyNews | November 25, 2005 |
| ET could hack internet: Aliens could hack the internet and spread viruses if proper precautions are not put in place, warned a top scientist | SC Magazine UK | November 25, 2005 |
| Distributed Computing Project Discovers New Knowledge About Earthquakes; private distributed computing project Discovery Net's earthquake research project allowed geophysicists to combine two different methods of studying earthquakes and discover new knowledge which could not have been discovered using only one of the methods | ScienceDaily | November 24, 2005 |
| World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe; an overview of the Large Hadron Collider project and the grid computing efforts which will support it | silicon.com | November 24, 2005 |
| Power of Idling Personal Computers Sought in AIDS Fight; an overview of fightAIDS@home and the World Community Grid | Top Tech News | November 23, 2005 |
| Grid to take on AIDS: IBM has launched a new research initiative to use grid technology for AIDS research; fightAIDS@home has joined the World Community Grid | CNET News | November 21, 2005 |
| Supercomputer Fights AIDS: The virtual supercomputer will test thousands of human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) mutations against tens of thousands of chemical compounds | Information Week | November 21, 2005 |
| PCs Get with the AIDS Program | Business Week | November 21, 2005 |
| RSA-640 Factored | MathWorld News | November 8, 2005 |
| Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems; Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales "has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work" | The Register | October 18, 2005 |
| The greatest discovery of all time; the current state of searches for extraterrestrial radio signals, and speculation of what the discovery of those signals would mean to humanity | Telegraph | October 5, 2005 |
| Cracked: the puzzle of protein origami; a short overview of current progress in protein folding studies, and a mention of Rosetta@home | Telegraph | September 21, 2005 |
| Computers Make Big Strides in Predicting Protein Structure; the current state of computer-predicted protein-folding and a mention of the new Rosetta@home project | innovations report | September 16, 2005 |
| Searching For Gravity @ Home; an overview of Einstein@Home. | The Institute (IEEE) | September 6, 2005 |
| Gravitationswellen im Heimcomputer: Einstein@home; an overview of Einstein@Home. The article is written in German and is in PDF format. | Astronomie Heute | September 5, 2005 |
| Grid computing gets NSF grant boost; the U.S.'s National Science Foundation will award a US$150 million grant to expand TeraGrid computing, and Britain's Department of Trade and Industry will spend US$1.8 million to promote commercial grid computing | Washington Technology | August 25, 2005 |
| Sun plugs software into the grid; Sun Microsystems' IT department has begun running some enterprise resource planning applications on the Sun Grid, which will be available for customers to use starting in September, 2005 | CNET News | August 24, 2005 |
| IBM calls for more World Community Grid members | image and data Manager online | August 24, 2005 |
| ANALYSIS: A look at encryption, from then to now; an overview of encryption practices since the 1970s and how projects like distributed.net have accelerated the need for better encryption | ATM Marketplace | August 9, 2005 |
| Distributed Computing in the Modern Enterprise: Grids, SOAs, Web Services, and Beyond; an overview of the ways in which companies are using distributed computing | ACM Queue | August, 2005 |
| A Conversation with David Anderson: The director of SETI@home discusses his work and the volunteer computing movement | ACM Queue | August, 2005 |
| Distributing Science; an overview of the BOINC platform and some of the projects using it | Cornell University | July 25, 2005 |
| How Gamers Can Help Cure Cancer; a suggestion to add distributed computing clients to the upcoming Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game consoles | Wired News | June 14, 2005 |
| Astronomers criticise plans to allow cellphone use on planes; cell phone use on airplanes could drown out the faint signals from space that radio astronomers and projects like SETI need for their research | New Scientist | June 9, 2005 |
| Modelling climate change: known unknowns; the chief scientist of climateprediction.net explains what climate change models can and can't tell people about planetary climate trends | openDemocracy | June 3, 2005 |
| Distributed computing for the masses; PlanetQuest hopes its "collaboratory" software will get students to become interested in the sciences | ZDNet UK | June 2, 2005 |
| Linux Powers Airborne Bots; a swarm of robotic helicopters with Linux servers will use distributed computing techniques to evaluate its surroundings | Wired News | June 1, 2005 |
| From PlanetQuest, software for stargazers; details about PlanetQuest's software client | CNet News | May 31, 2005 |
| Idle computers get busy screening drug targets for cancer (subscription required); an overview of a new project by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) to find a cure for pancreatic cancer | news@Nature.com | May 26, 2005 |
| Association for Computing Machinery Joins World Community Grid: Grid Donates 10,000 Years of Run Time to Humanitarian Effort; the ACM "will encourage its 80,000 members worldwide to donate their idle computing time to World Community Grid" | AScribe Live Newswire | May 24, 2005 |
| Grid Computing Means Business; how grid computing will be used in business | ServerWatch | May 23, 2005 |
| Computer power of people needed; a short overview of Einstein@home | The Register-Guard | May 22, 2005 |
| A place of utmost gravity: The LIGO site in Washington is hoping to be first to prove Einstein theory; an overview of the LIGO observatory, for which Einstein@home is processing data | The Register-Guard | May 22, 2005 |
| Science's digital treasure hunt: Harnessing home computers to tackle tough questions; a short overview of some current @home projects | Lexington Herald-Leader | May 19, 2005 |
| Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size; an overview of the University of Wisconsin's Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) computing environment and how two UW professors are using it to study the human genome and the fundamental properties of matter | PhysOrg | May 10, 2005 |
| DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grassroots Supercomputing; a detailed overview of current distributed computing projects | Science magazine | May 6, 2005 |
| DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grid Sport: Competitive Crunching; a look at competitive distributed computing project participants and "crunchers" | Science magazine | May 6, 2005 |
| IBM's World Grid Crunching Huge Problems; a short overview of the World Community Grid | KXAN TV, Austin, Texas | May 6, 2005 |
| University course is ahead of the curve; an overview of The University of Melbourne's new "master of engineering in distributed computing" program, created by Professor Rao Kotagiri and Dr. Rajkumar Buyya | The Age | May 3, 2005 |
| Consortium Seeks to Ease Grid Rollouts; new version 4 of the Globus Toolkit allows companies to deploy distributed computing environments more easily | Bio IT World | May 2, 2005 |
| Gitmo for Hard Drives: Experts in distributed computing could crack al-Qaeda's computer files the hard way; how distributed computing is helping computer forensics solve cases faster | Red Herring | May 1, 2005 |
| Processing for Science: "@Home" projects band together and proliferate; an overview of distributed computing and some current projects | Scientific American | May, 2005 |
| Apple Rolls Out Server Operating System Upgrade; Apple has included XGrid in version 10.4 of Mac OS X Server | InformationWeek | April 29, 2005 |
| CERN takes grid to a new dimension: Research lab hits 600MB/s between eight sites | Techworld | April 28, 2005 |
| Q and A: Grid in the financial industry; an overview of how the financial industry is using grid computing | Computerworld | April 26, 2005 |
| World Community Grid powered by 100,000 devices; in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has recruited 100,000 computers and completed over 6 million work units | Hudson Valley News | April 25, 2005 |
| Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools: World Community Grid Touted as Novel Approach to Untangling Complexities of Protein Function; in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has predicted 50,000 of the 100,000 to 150,000 protein structures it plans to predict | Business Wire | April 25, 2005 |
| At-home computing puts idle PCs to scientific use: Calculating capacity can help research on various projects; an overview of distributed computing and current projects | Detroit Free Press | April 22, 2005 |
| An Einstein theory still tantalizes: Scientists hope to prove existence of gravity waves; an overview of the search for evidence of gravity waves, and a mention of Einstein@home | Baltimore Sun | April 22, 2005 |
| World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites; the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) now has more than 100 sites in 31 countries, with over 10,000 CPUs and almost 10 million Gigabytes of disk and tape storage, but this is still only 5% of the processing power the Large Hadron Collider will eventually need | New Scientist | March 14, 2005 |
| Thousands join hunt for gravitational waves; a short overview and update of Einstein@Home | New Scientist | March 14, 2005 |
| Now Open: Blue Gene On Demand; IBM is offering its Blue Gene supercomputer for computing on demand | internetnews.com | March 11, 2005 |
| Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein's Birthday | PhysOrg.com | March 11, 2005 |
| Wiki Becomes a Way of Life; an overview of the top contributors to Wikipedia | Wired News | March 8, 2005 |
| Not Sold on Cell, Yet; an opinion about what the next-generation Cell processor needs to do to succeed | eWeek | March 7, 2005 |
| Windows for clusters due in autumn; an overview of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition | silicon.com | March 4, 2005 |
| Planets Lurk on Your Desktop; an overview of the upcoming PlanetQuest project | Wired News | March 2, 2005 |
| Ending the Grid Lock; an overview of the Globus Consortium, "a non-profit organization aimed at turning more businesses onto grid computing" | Technology Review | March 2, 2005 |
| A sense of insecurity; an interview with Yiqun Lisa Yin, one of the Chinese researchers who broke the SHA-1 encryption algorithm | CNET News | March 2, 2005 |
| easyMobile.com Offers Spare Computer Processing Capacity to World Community Grid; after it builds computing capacity in the UK, easyMobile.com will offer all of its spare capacity to World Community Grid | ITnews | February 28, 2005 |
| Unleashing unused brain power; Songnian Zhou's company, Platform Computing, is "leading the way in grid computing" | Toronto Star | February 27, 2005 |
| 42nd Mersenne Prime Found | MathWorld | February 26, 2005 |
| 'Einstein@home,' Revolutionary Astrophysics Project, Targets Ordinary Computer Users -- Lots of Them; a short overview of Einstein@Home | Ascribe | February 22, 2005 |
| Interview: The Future in Grid Computing; an interview with Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the state of grid computing | BetaNews | February 21, 2005 |
| Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live; an overview of the Einstein@Home project | PhysOrg.com | February 19, 2005 |
| Catch a gravity wave: By installing a new screensaver, you can donate spare computer time to the search for gravity waves. | Astronomy News | February 19, 2005 |
| Software sifts through gravity's mysteries: Physicists kick off Einstein @ Home campaign | MSNBC | February 19, 2005 |
| Another Form of Encryption Goes Down for the Count: Standard that is key to virtually all secure online communications is broken; the SHA-1 encryption method, used in SSH, SSL, S/MIME, PGP, IPSec, VPN, and many other protocols, has been broken by three Shandong University researchers, using a distributed computing application | PCWorld | February 17, 2005 |
| PCs do thousands of years of work; an overview and update of the Human Proteome Folding project | BBC News | February 17, 2005 |
| Schools' computers help fight cancer; when they are not in use by students and faculty, Macintosh computers in some Kentucky public schools will be used in a Kentucky state grid for the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center project to look for new cancer therapies | Lexington Herald-Leader | February 17, 2005 |
| Google may host encyclopedia project; Google has offered to host some of Wikipedia's content | ZDNet UK | February 14, 2005 |
| Interview with DC climate project head Dr. David Stainforth | ars technica | February 13, 2005 |
| p2p and pulsars; an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project | p2pnet.net | February 5, 2005 |
| Sun plans to start auctioning capacity: Corporate clients could bid online at time of peak need; Sun Microsystems will partner with online stock market Archipelago Holdings, Inc. to create a market in which customers can bid for utility computing power | SFGate.com | February 3, 2005 |
| Distributed Parallel Computing with Web Services; how web services can be used with distributed parallel computing | Web Services Journal | February 2, 2005 |
| Sun offers processing by the hour; an overview of Sun Microsystems's new service, which offers grid computing for $1US per CPU per hour | BBC News | February 2, 2005 |
| The Protein Grid; an overview of the Human Proteome Folding project | Technology Review | February 1, 2005 |
| Home computers search for gravity waves: Physicists hope to exploit the downtime of a million machines; an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project | Nature | February 1, 2005 |
| Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth; Wired News's summary of climateprediction.net's recent results | Wired News | January 31, 2005 |
| Soaring global warming 'can't be ruled out'; some climate models generated by climateprediction.net predict a 11.5° C rise in Earth's temperature in 50 years | NewScientist | January 26, 2005 |
| Alarm at new climate warning: Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. | BBC News | January 26, 2005 |
| New Consortium Promotes Grid Computing For Businesses; Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems and other companies have created the Globus Consortium "to develop and promote grid-computing software for businesses." | InformationWeek | January 24, 2005 |
| 'Rosetta' Software To Unlock Secrets Of Many Human Proteins; an overview of the Rosetta software used by the Human Proteome Folding project | Science Daily | January 22, 2005 |
| The Biggest Grid Yet; a short overview of World Community Grid | PC Magazine | January 18, 2005 |
| Grid gets down to business; companies are adopting commercial grid computing cautiously | TECHWORLD | January 10, 2005 |
| Supercomputing goes global; supercomputers are evolving into grid and distributed computers | Computerworld | January 10, 2005 |
| Why encyclopaedic row speaks volumes about the old guard; traditional encyclopaedists feel threatened by Wikipedia | The Observer | January 9, 2005 |
| Open-sourcing the news; Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales talks about Wikinews | CNET News | January 7, 2005 |
| Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder | Slashdot | January 3, 2005 |
| Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All; an interview with a co-creator founder of Wikipedia | Technology Review | January, 2005 |
| 2004 | ||
| A Peek Under Microsoft's Secret 'Bigtop'; a short overview of Microsoft's secret distributed computing initiative | eWeek | December 29, 2004 |
| Grid Computing 101; a short introduction to distributed and grid computing | eWeek | December 29, 2004 |
| How to Save the World by Doing Nothing; a short overview of World Community Grid | KRON 4 | December 22, 2004 |
| Anti spam bid canned: Lycos scraps anti-spam screensaver | vnunet.com | December 7, 2004 |
| Wikinews goes online | P2Pnet.net | December 5, 2004 |
| Lycos army shoots itself in foot?; one of the spam websites targeted by Lycos Europe's makelovenotspam.com project redirected traffic back to makelovenotspam, which could have shut down the site | ZDNet UK News | December 2, 2004 |
| Part of the Whole; an overview of distributed computing and some of the major projects | ComputorEdge | December, 2004 |
| Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers' bills | Wikinews | November 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Creators Move Into News; the creators of the Wikipedia (a free, open-source encyclopedia) have created a similar project for journalism | Wired News | November 29, 2004 |
| Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers; Lycos Europe's Make Love Not Spam project uses a screensaver for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) against known spam websites | The Register | November 26, 2004 |
| The DistComp Wattage Monitoring Project; a study of how much more electricity a computer uses to run a distributed computing project | Ready Response | November 25, 2004 |
| IBM's World Community Grid: A New SETI@home-Inspired Venture; an overview of World Community Grid, compared to BOINC | The Planetary Society | November 24, 2004 |
| Orion Puts a Cluster on Your Desktop; an overview of Orion's new 12-node and 96-node workstations | Workstation Planet | November 17, 2004 |
| Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid; an overview of IBM's new World Community Grid and its collaboration with grid.org | Yahoo! News | November 16, 2004 |
| Xbox Linux cluster; an experiment to create a Linux cluster from 8 Xboxes | engadget | November 12, 2004 |
| From Seeing to Understanding; how cluster computing is used to visualize and analyze the results of large computing projects | Science and Technology Review | November 11, 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 |
| 2000 | ||
| 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 |
