| Recent Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| Phylo Flash game helps trace genetic disease: an overview of the new Phylo project | Wired News UK | December 1, 2010 |
| Help Scientists Hunt for Exploding Stars; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project | Wired | November 17, 2010 |
| Galaxy Zoo Searches for Supernovae; an overview of the Galaxy Zoo Supernovae project | Universe Today | November 11, 2010 |
| EC funds grid computing project: The European Commission has announced that it will provide 25 million Euros of funding to a pan-European grid computing project | THINQ.co.uk | September 15, 2010 |
| Australian universities to leverage crowd power for new water filters; a short overview of World Community Grid's new Computing for Clean Water project | Fluid Handling | September 9, 2010 |
| Computer theft solved thanks to BOINC; a stolen laptop running the WUProp@Home project was able to be tracked and recovered | SETI Germany | September 4, 2010 |
| 20 Quadrillion Muons--Muon1 hits milestone; the Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project recently hit an important milestone | Politics and P2P | July 16, 2010 |
| Crowdsourcing the search for aliens: The SETI Institute's Jill Tarter is looking for a few good filters; the SETI Institute is creating open-source software that anyone can contribute to to look for radio signals in data from the Allen Telescope Array in new and creative ways | O'Reilly Radar | July 12, 2010 |
| Volunteer computing helps rescue oiled Gulf Coast wildlife; a temporary citizen science project allows people with iPhones to submit pictures and GPS coordinates of animals on the Gulf Coast who need to be rescued from the BP oil leak | International Science Grid this Week | July 7, 2010 |
| Launch of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2; an overview of the second phase of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project | World Community Grid | June 28, 2010 |
| NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer; an overview of six Distributed Human projects | Wired Magazine | June 28, 2010 |
| Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp; astronomers have classified a mysterious object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant in 2007 | Technology Review | June 24, 2010 |
| 7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars; students participating in the Mars Student Imaging Project discovered a cave or "skylight" in an image from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The project is open to U.S. students from grade 5 through college sophomore level. | SPACE.com | June 21, 2010 |
| IBM, Volunteers Help Locate Anti-Cancer Drugs | CIOUpdate.com | June 17, 2010 |
| Surplus PC Power Yields Faster Cancer Research: World Community Grid project automates tedious process to determine if protein samples are ready for x-ray examination | IBM | June 15, 2010 |
| ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home: French startup ViFiB thinks it can find a niche somewhere between Amazon Web Services and SETI@home | Network World | June 14, 2010 |
| How your PC can help science: Help save the world, one processor cycle at a time | TechRadar UK | June 13, 2010 |
| Your computer at the service of science, exclusive interview to the director of seti@home and BOINC: David P. Anderson | seti cl | June 13, 2010 |
| Can’t build? You can observe; an overview of "citizen science" projects and the new Science for Citizens website which tracks these projects | NashuaTelegraph.com | June 7, 2010 |
| Higley schools pull space-search software from 5,000 computers; BOINC software allegedly installed by an IT person on thousands of school district computers was removed by the school district at an estimated cost of US$1 million | azcentral.com | June 6, 2010 |
| A Better Rice for the World; an interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, the head of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project | Alexander Janssen's Blog | May 19, 2010 |
| Take a Virtual Moonwalk for Science; a podcast about the new Moon Zoo project | Scientific American | May 13, 2010 |
| Today's Fast Company Assignment: Do Cancer Research in Your Sleep; a short overview of World Community Grid and some of its projects | Fast Company | April 28, 2010 |
| Stardust@Home is a Time Waster with real astronomical significance; an overview of Stardust@Home | DownloadSquad | April 22, 2010 |
| World Community Grid’s "Nutritious Rice for the World" project comes to an end | thinkdigit | April 21, 2010 |
| Quake-Catcher Network: Help Improve Earthquake Awareness and Science!; an overview of Quake Catcher Network | Greenfudge.org | April 21, 2010 |
| WCG China projects; World Community Grid is looking for potential projects in China | Global Times | April 20, 2010 |
| End of Nutritious Rice for the World project; World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project ended successfully on April 6, 2010, generating 7 billion protein folding models | World Community Grid | April 13, 2010 |
| SuperDonate Inc. Creates an Application to Earn Money for Charity; an overview of SuperDonate | Smart Data Centers | April 8, 2010 |
| How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks; an overview of Galaxy Zoo | TIME | March 28, 2010 |
| Fixing Reality with Online Games; an overview of EVOKE | h+ Magazine | March 24, 2010 |
| Case Study: Einstein@OSG; Einstein@Home has been adapted to run on Open Science Grid, which is contributing at least 10% of the project's computing power | International Science Grid This Week | March 17, 2010 |
| SuperDonate, Inc. Releases Software that Donates Unused Computing Power to Charity; an overview of the new SuperDonate charity | PR-inside.com | March 17, 2010 |
| The lonely but hopeful search for life off earth; a review of SETI and SETI@Home's progress | SignOnSanDiego.com | March 15, 2010 |
| Volunteer for 'White Hat Botnets'; an overview of distributed computing projects | Internet Evolution | March 15, 2010 |
| By Your Accelerometers Combined, I Am Quake Catcher!; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network | Gizmodo | March 12, 2010 |
| Laptops could be key to an earthquake early-warning system; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | Los Angeles Times | March 11, 2010 |
| First Cosmic Dust May Have Been Discovered By Crowdsource Hero; Stardust@Home and participant Bruce Hudson may have discovered the project's first interstellar dust particle | Gizmodo Australia | March 7, 2010 |
| Distributed Computing Helps in AIDS Fight | medGadget | March 3, 2010 |
| Two Compounds Discovered That Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug; two chemical compounds discovered by fightAIDS@home make possible a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs | PR Newswire | March 2, 2010 |
| Rise of the Citizen Scientists; how distributed computing projects are enabling average people to be scientists and to contribute to scientfic research | The Tyee | March 2, 2010 |
| MakerCulture: Dr. Everyman; an overview of Folding@home and other distributed computing projects | rabble.ca | February 26, 2010 |
| Virtualization - Key for LHC physics volunteer computing; an overview of the CernVM software appliance which will allow large-scale Linux-based physics simulation experiment software to use the BOINC computing platform and volunteer computing from Windows PCs | International Science Grid this Week | February 24, 2010 |
| Are we missing E.T.'s call?; a review of SETI's progress over its 50-year history | Singularity Hub | February 22, 2010 |
| Use Your Idle Computer Time to Save the World; an overview of World Community Grid's distributed computing projects | Singularity Hub | February 22, 2010 |
| FightAIDS@Home with your computer; a short overview of distributed computing projects and fightAIDS@home | Chicago Now Blogs | February 19, 2010 |
| Launch of Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2; phase 2 of World Community Grid's Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project has begun | World Community Grid | February 17, 2010 |
| You can help map the Milky Way galaxy; an overview of MilkyWay@home | iTWire | February 16, 2010 |
| Six Cool Distributed Computing Projects; short and funny overviews of six distributed computing projects | UpRoxx | February 15, 2010 |
| Distributed PC Network Helps Map Milky Way; a short overview of MilkyWay@home | PC Magazine | February 12, 2010 |
| Milky Way Map Produced by Home Computers; an overview of MilkyWay@home | Softpedia | February 11, 2010 |
| PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way; an overview of MilkyWay@home | PHYSORG.com | February 10, 2010 |
| Majestic-12 search engine in funding boost from eBay entrepreneur; Majestic-12 will use new funding from an eBay company to add to its infrastructure and improve website crawling and indexing times | Birmingham Post | February 4, 2010 |
| Scripps Research Scientists Find Two Compounds that Lay the Foundation for a New Class of AIDS Drug; fightAIDS@home has discovered a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs | Frontier India Pharmaceutical News | February 3, 2010 |
| IBM Enlists Mickey Mouse for Smarter Planet; IBM has installed a demonstration data center at Disney's EPCOT theme park. Spare computing power from the data center supports World Community Grid projects | IT Business Edge | January 29, 2010 |
| Find aliens with distributed computing; a short overview of distributed computing projects and SETI@Home | Web User | January 25, 2010 |
| You Can Run Scientific Experiments in Your Own Home; an overview of various distributed computing projects | PlanetPOV | January 23, 2010 |
| vSwarm: a Free Render Farm In the Cloud; a short overview of the new vSwarm project | Vizworld | January 19, 2010 |
| IBM: Suomen Syöpäyhdistys lahjoittaa palvelinaikaa syöpätutkimukselle World Community Grid -laskenta (IBM: The Finnish Cancer Society to donate a server to cancer research in the World Community Grid calculation). This article is written in Finnish (Suomeksi), but you can read an English translation of it. | TIEKE | January 18, 2010 |
| GSM encryption crack made public; an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project | LWN.net | January 6, 2010 |
| One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed: A security researcher is in the process of building a table that will enable the cracking of GSM encryption, assuming that a parallel effort to crack its frequency hopping algorithm succeeds; an overview of the A5/1 Security Project | Ars Technica | December 30, 2009 |
| One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed; an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project | ars technica | December 29, 2009 |
| Cooperación global (Global Cooperation); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | La Nacion | December 28, 2009 |
| Birmingham's Majestic-12 nipping at Google's heels; Majestic-12 is only the second search engine in the world to join the "webmap trillionaires club"--the first is Google. | Birmingham Post | December 18, 2009 |
| Search for ET requires upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches; SETI@Home is using the fastest Ethernet data networking switches available to process over one petabyte (1,000 Terabytes) of radio spectrum data every day | SearchNetworking.com | December 16, 2009 |
| Scientists: Tweets after an earthquake could aid emergency workers; scientists may some day be able to mine crowdsourced data such as tweets to quickly identify earthquakes and other disasters | Yahoo Tech Blogs | December 15, 2009 |
| A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing; computing is creating the "fourth paradigm" of science--computational science, in which scientific computation tools must evolve to manage a growing flood of observational data | New York Times | December 14, 2009 |
| Are we really alone?; a short history of the search for alien life and alien intelligence | The National | December 14, 2009 |
| Air Force Taps PlayStation 3 for Research; the U.S. Air Force is testing PlayStation 3 clusters for distributed computing research | The Industry Standard | December 7, 2009 |
| I see crime scenes; the IC-CRIME (Interdisciplinary Cyber-enabled Crime Reconstruction through Innovative Methodology and Engagement) project will use a crime scene capture device to allow online, distributed crime scene analysis and to create a database of crime scenes for future pattern analysis and training. | International Science Grid this Week | December 2, 2009 |
| Higley firing tied to alien-search software; a school district network administrator was fired for (among other things) running SETI@home on every school district computer without permission | azcentral.com | November 30, 2009 |
| Astronomers release galactic collision game: Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | BBC News | November 25, 2009 |
| Cloud to power research number-crunching | ZDNet Asia | November 25, 2009 |
| How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC computing platform and of 12 BOINC-based distributed computing projects | PC World Australia | November 25, 2009 |
| It’s a Zoo Out There: Galaxy Project Engages ‘Armchair Scientists’; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | George Mason University News | November 24, 2009 |
| CERN's LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing; CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is influencing grid and cloud computing architecture and practices | Computer Weekly | November 23, 2009 |
| Play the Galactic Slots; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Mergers project | MSNBC Cosmic Log | November 23, 2009 |
| Database details 2.7 million possible structures for molecular sieves; a private distributed computing project discovered almost 3 million possible zeolites, or molecular sieves which filter molecules of certain sizes. Before this project only 200 zeolites were known. | nanowerk | November 2, 2009 |
| Computers Around the World Unite; an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Chinese, but you can read an English translation of it. | news.163.com | November 1, 2009 |
| Cloud Computing Not Hype But Reality | Network Computing | November, 2009 |
| La ciencia extiende su red de investigación con la computación voluntaria (Science extends its network of volunteer computing research); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | Wall Street Journal Online | October 29, 2009 |
| Quake-Catcher Network seeks volunteers on campus to host seismic sensors; a scientist at Stanford University wants students on the campus to attach seismic sensors to their laptops to support the Quake Catcher Network | Stanford News | October 27, 2009 |
| La Universidad de Berkeley impulsa un superordenador de uso gratuito y universal (Berkeley University supercomputer launches a free and universal service); an overview of the BOINC computing platform's growing support in Spain and of Einstein@Home (this article is written in Spanish but you can view an English translation of it). | elPeriódico.com | October 23, 2009 |
| Volunteering Computers for Science: Users Make Their Home PCs Available to Chase Medical Breakthroughs; a detailed overview of distributed computing projects, the BOINC computing platform, and Rosetta@Home | Wall Street Journal Online | October 20, 2009 |
| Volunteers Donate Idle Computing Power for Biomedical Research; an overview of distributed computing projects and the BOINC computing platform | iHealthBeat | October 20, 2009 |
| Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize; GIMPS has won a US$100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for its discovery, on August 23, 2008, of the first known primer number with more than 10 million digits | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 14, 2009 |
| 45th Mersenne prime revealed: GIMPS grabs $100,000 for discovery | The Register | October 14, 2009 |
| Wirbicki Law Group Seeks to Change the World...One Computer at a Time; a law firm is encouraging other law firms to join it in participating in World Community Grid | dsnews.com | October 13, 2009 |
| UK Search Engine Takes on Google; Majestic-12 discovered its 1 trillionth unique URL on October 12, 2009. The only other organization to publicly announce it has discovered 1 trillion URLs is Google | PRWeb | October 12, 2009 |
| Anthony Doesburg: Idle time put to work, all in the cause of science; an overview of distributed computing projects, citizen science and BOINC | New Zealand Herald News | October 12, 2009 |
| A new age for the oldest science; an overview of computational astronomy | International Science Grid this Week | October 7, 2009 |
| Compuware Buys Gomez For $295 Million In Cash; Gomez, the owner of the Gomez PEER project, will be owned by Compuware after November, 2009 | TechCrunchIT | October 7, 2009 |
| Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'; an overview of a potentially controversial upcoming Distributed Human project/game | Mail Online | October 5, 2009 |
| Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life; an overview of the upcoming EvoGrid project | Popular Science | September 29, 2009 |
| Forget it Rhonda: Help, help me Einstein; "A group of summer students working on the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO, project at the California Institute of Technology created a medley of songs on YouTube to explain their research." | Symmetry Magazine | September 10, 2009 |
| BOINC, software open source per il grid computing (BOINC, open source software for grid computing); an overview of BOINC. This article is written in Italian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Programmazione.it | September 10, 2009 |
| Link of the Week--Citizen Cyberspace; an update on the Citizen Cyberscience Center, a United Nations project to "provide scientists with an inexpensive form of distributed computing power that is complementary to grid technology--as seen in such processing-intensive problems as the LHC@home project or the 'Africa@home' project." | International Science Grid this Week | September 9, 2009 |
| The "Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together" reaches phase 2; Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together completed Phase 1 on August 28, 2009, and is preparing for Phase 2 | thinkdigit | August 28, 2009 |
| New project uses distributed computing to break GSM crypto; an overview of the new A5/1 Security Project | The Tech Herald | August 28, 2009 |
| Asian computers join forces against avian flu; the Avian Flu DC2 Refinement project, which was run in March, 2009 on the EUAsiaGrid, tested 300,000 potential drug molecules against eight new avian flu mutation targets | International Science Grid This Week | August 26, 2009 |
| Web of hope; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | Western Weekender Penrith Online | August 26, 2009 |
| Cracking GSM phone crypto via distributed computing; an overview of a new, open-source, distributed computing project, A5/1, to crack the encryption used on GSM phones to publicize a weak encryption scheme that is already being exploited | CNET News | August 25, 2009 |
| Grid computing, the new commodity; the European GridEcon project has created a platform for buying and selling computing resources as a utility | ICT Results | August 24, 2009 |
| Henry Markham (the Project Director of the Blue Brain project) Interview; an overview of the Blue Brain project to study the mammalian brain through simulation, and a possible upcoming distributed computing project, the "Adopt a Neuron Project" | Next Big Future | August 24, 2009 |
| Pupil hooks school up to search for aliens; an overview of a New Zealand high school student's successful project to set up his school's computers to participate in SETI@home | Otago Daily Times Online | August 21, 2009 |
| Grid helps to filter LIGO’s data; how the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses the LIGO Data Grid and Open Science Grid to look for evidence of gravitational waves in large amounts of data | International Science Grid This Week | August 19, 2009 |
| SETI telescope array produces first science results; with only 42 of its planned 350 radio telescope dishes installed so far, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is generating useful science results even as it searches for alien radio signals | New Scientist | August 18, 2009 |
| English Wikipedia hits three million articles | The Guardian | August 17, 2009 |
| New heroes with a hard drive; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | The Sydney Morning Herald | August 16, 2009 |
| Hunt for Supernovae With Galaxy Zoo | Universe Today | August 13, 2009 |
| Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money; the Digsby social networking software application installs a distributed computing client on a user's computer by default, unless the user reads the application's terms of service and disables the client. Digsby may use the client to generate revenue to support development of the application. | lifehacker | August 13, 2009 |
| Why it's time to ditch Digsby; the Download.com editorial team decided to lower the ratings score for the Digsby social networking software application because it did not address its users' concerns about "stealthily" installing a distributed computing client on a user's computer when the user install's Digsby's application | Download.com | August 13, 2009 |
| BOINC gets social with Facebook | International Science Grid This Week | August 12, 2009 |
| World Community Grid...; a short overview of World Community Grid | examiner.com | August 8, 2009 |
| Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For Research: The Progress Through Processors app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for diseases, climate prediction, and malaria control | InformationWeek | August 7, 2009 |
| Rosetta@Home Stands to Gain Compute Power from Intel's New Facebook-based App | GenomeWeb | August 7, 2009 |
| Can Intel cure cancer with progress through processors? | ITWire | August 6, 2009 |
| Your Mom’s Facebook Status: I’m Crunching Climate Data!; Intel and Grid Republic have created a Progress Through Processors application for Facebook to allow Facebook users to contribute to BOINC-based projects | Wired Magazine | August 5, 2009 |
| Donate Your Computer's Idle Time To a Good Cause On Facebook; a short overview of the new Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | Popular Science | August 5, 2009 |
| Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power; an overview of the Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | CNET News | August 3, 2009 |
| People's astronomy; a great overview of current distributed computing and "citizen science" astronomy projects | IET Knowledge Network | July 6, 2009 |
| 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed; GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits) | Slashdot Science | June 13, 2009 |
| How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platform | dish Magazine | June, 2009 |
| IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project | IT News Online | May 5, 2009 |
| Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source; notes from a talk by Jill Tarter of The SETI Institue about how SETI uses, and plans to use, technology in its search for alien intelligence | PCMag.com Blogs | May 4, 2009 |
| SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began | PHYSORG.com | May 1, 2009 |
| A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten years | siliconrepublic.com | April 30, 2009 |
| Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate | When I Have Time | April 24, 2009 |
| National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research | National Science Foundation News | April 23, 2009 |
| Mining For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers; an overview of distributed computing projects searching for prime numbers, and of GIMPS in particular | National Public Radio | April 10, 2009 |
| IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project | Silicon Republic | March 25, 2009 |
| New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars; Einstein@Home will search data from the Arecibo radio telescope to find binary systems consisting of a spinning neutron star orbiting another neutron star or a black hole. The project can detect pulsars in binary systems with orbital periods as short as 11 minutes, 5 times shorter than it was previously possible to detect. | SpaceRef | March 24, 2009 |
| Folding@home now the world’s most powerful supercomputer | Custom PC | February 24, 2009 |
| New ATI Catalyst 9.2 goes live; ATI (now AMD)'s new version 9.2 Catalyst driver provides multi-GPU support for Folding@home | Fudzilla | February 22, 2009 |
| Zweite Runde gestartet: (Second Round Started); an overview of the new features of Galaxy Zoo 2.0. This article is written in German, but you can read an English translation of it. | gulli | February 20, 2009 |
| Help create an earthbound sun; an overview of the Ibercivis project's efforts to help design ITER, "a joint international research and development project that aims to demonstrate the scientific and technical feasibility of fusion power" | International Science Grid This Week | February 18, 2009 |
| Neues Futter für Hobby-Astronomen: (New fodder for hobby astronomers); an overview of Galaxy Zoo 2.0. This article is written in German, but you can read an English translation of it. | Spiegel Online | February 17, 2009 |
| Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life; maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques | The New York Times | February 10, 2009 |
| Scientists proposed the solution of Fermi's paradox; scientists have proposed a solution to Fermi's paradox and predicted that over 200 civilizations capable of sending radio signals could exist in the Milky Way galaxy. This article is written in Russian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Data Manager | February 2, 2009 |
| How to build a powerful distributed computer | TechRadar UK | February 1, 2009 |
| Extremadurathome: colaboración ciudadana en proyectos científicos (Extremadurathome: citizen collaboration in scientific projects): An overview of the new Extremadurathome computing platform/portal. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | barrapunto.com | January 30, 2009 |
| Eficientan celdas solares (Efficient Solar Cells): Mexican scientists help Harvard develop organic solar cell materials for clean energy. An overview of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | El Manaña | January 24, 2009 |
| Green it!; a short overview of climateprediction.net | The University Daily Kansan | January 22, 2009 |
| Parabon Computation puts idle processing power to work; an overview of Parabon Computation, which owns the Compute Against Cancer project | TechJournal South | January 21, 2009 |
| Perspectives on advancements in distributed computing | International Science Grid This Week | January 21, 2009 |
| Hardcore gaming enthusiasts in bio project; an ovewrview of Folding@home's success with the Sony PlayStation 3 architecture | The Hindu | January 18, 2009 |
| INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: Astronomy Hits the Big Time; (subscription required); Galaxy Zoo is making important new contributions to astronomy | Science Magazine | January 16, 2009 |
| A galaxy of helpful people: An Oxford scientist has harnessed the power of the web to create a massive citizen-science project that is truly collaborative; an overview of Galaxy Zoo | The Guardian | January 15, 2009 |
| Help Mankind by Folding@Home; a short overview of Folding@home | Prasys' Blog | January 11, 2009 |
| Celle solari più efficienti e meno costose anche grazie al tuo PC! (More efficient and less expensive solar cells also thanks to your PC!); an overview of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project. This article is written in Italian, but you can read an English translation of it. | Data Manager | January 9, 2009 |
| La inteligencia colectiva se pone al servicio de la ciencia a través de Internet (Collective intelligence is put to the service of science through Internet); an overview of Foldit. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | El País | January 8, 2009 |
| Nvidia CUDA acelera la investigación científica (Nvidia CUDA accelerates the scientific research); an overview of some BOINC projects using NVIDIA CUDA GPUs to speed up research. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | Diario Tecnologías de la Información | January 7, 2009 |
| Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering; Purdue University has created a Distributed Rendering Environment which uses idle time on more than 20,000 CPUs at the university to render graphics for Purdue's students' projects | International Science Grid this Week | January 7, 2009 |
| The Universe Today Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008; Galaxy Zoo was voted one of Universe Today's top 10 scientific research projects of 2008 | Universe Today | January 2, 2009 |
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