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20 Quadrillion Muons--Muon1 hits milestone

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

the Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project recently hit an important milestone

Crowdsourcing the search for aliens

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

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

Volunteer computing helps rescue oiled Gulf Coast wildlife

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 MDT

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

Launch of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the second phase of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project

NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of six Distributed Human projects

Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

astronomers have classified a mysterious object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant in 2007

7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

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.

IBM, Volunteers Help Locate Anti-Cancer Drugs

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Surplus PC Power Yields Faster Cancer Research

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid project automates tedious process to determine if protein samples are ready for x-ray examination

ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

French startup ViFiB thinks it can find a niche somewhere between Amazon Web Services and SETI@home

How your PC can help science

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Help save the world, one processor cycle at a time

Your computer at the service of science, exclusive interview to the director of seti@home and BOINC: David P. Anderson

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Can�t build? You can observe

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of "citizen science" projects and the new Science for Citizens website which tracks these projects

Higley schools pull space-search software from 5,000 computers

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 MDT

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

A Better Rice for the World

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, the head of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project

Take a Virtual Moonwalk for Science

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 MDT

a podcast about the new Moon Zoo project

Today's Fast Company Assignment: Do Cancer Research in Your Sleep

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of World Community Grid and some of its projects

Stardust@Home is a Time Waster with real astronomical significance

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Stardust@Home

World Community Grid�s "Nutritious Rice for the World" project comes to an end

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Quake-Catcher Network: Help Improve Earthquake Awareness and Science!

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Quake Catcher Network

WCG China projects

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid is looking for potential projects in China

End of Nutritious Rice for the World project

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project ended successfully on April 6, 2010, generating 7 billion protein folding models

SuperDonate Inc. Creates an Application to Earn Money for Charity

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of SuperDonate

How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of Galaxy Zoo

Fixing Reality with Online Games

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of EVOKE

Case Study: Einstein@OSG

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

Einstein@Home has been adapted to run on Open Science Grid, which is contributing at least 10% of the project's computing power

SuperDonate, Inc. Releases Software that Donates Unused Computing Power to Charity

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new SuperDonate charity

The lonely but hopeful search for life off earth

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

a review of SETI and SETI@Home's progress

Volunteer for 'White Hat Botnets'

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects

By Your Accelerometers Combined, I Am Quake Catcher!

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network

Laptops could be key to an earthquake early-warning system

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the Quake Catcher Network

First Cosmic Dust May Have Been Discovered By Crowdsource Hero

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

Stardust@Home and participant Bruce Hudson may have discovered the project's first interstellar dust particle

Distributed Computing Helps in AIDS Fight

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

Two Compounds Discovered That Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

two chemical compounds discovered by fightAIDS@home make possible a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs

Rise of the Citizen Scientists

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 MST

how distributed computing projects are enabling average people to be scientists and to contribute to scientfic research

MakerCulture: Dr. Everyman

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Folding@home and other distributed computing projects

Virtualization - Key for LHC physics volunteer computing

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

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

Are we missing E.T.'s call?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

a review of SETI's progress over its 50-year history

Use Your Idle Computer Time to Save the World

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of World Community Grid's distributed computing projects

FightAIDS@Home with your computer

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of distributed computing projects and fightAIDS@home

Launch of Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

phase 2 of World Community Grid's Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project has begun

You can help map the Milky Way galaxy

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of MilkyWay@home

Six Cool Distributed Computing Projects

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

short and funny overviews of six distributed computing projects

Distributed PC Network Helps Map Milky Way

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of MilkyWay@home

Milky Way Map Produced by Home Computers

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of MilkyWay@home

PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of MilkyWay@home

Majestic-12 search engine in funding boost from eBay entrepreneur

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

Majestic-12 will use new funding from an eBay company to add to its infrastructure and improve website crawling and indexing times

Scripps Research Scientists Find Two Compounds that Lay the Foundation for a New Class of AIDS Drug

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 MST

fightAIDS@home has discovered a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs

IBM Enlists Mickey Mouse for Smarter Planet

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

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

Find aliens with distributed computing

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of distributed computing projects and SETI@Home

You Can Run Scientific Experiments in Your Own Home

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of various distributed computing projects

vSwarm: a Free Render Farm In the Cloud

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of the new vSwarm project

IBM: Suomen Sy�p�yhdistys lahjoittaa palvelinaikaa sy�p�tutkimukselle World Community Grid -laskenta

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

(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.

GSM encryption crack made public

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 MST

an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project

One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

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

One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project

Cooperaci�n global

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

(Global Cooperation); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it.

Birmingham's Majestic-12 nipping at Google's heels

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

Majestic-12 is only the second search engine in the world to join the "webmap trillionaires club"--the first is Google.

Search for ET requires upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

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

Scientists: Tweets after an earthquake could aid emergency workers

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

scientists may some day be able to mine crowdsourced data such as tweets to quickly identify earthquakes and other disasters

A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

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

Are we really alone?

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

a short history of the search for alien life and alien intelligence

Air Force Taps PlayStation 3 for Research

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

the U.S. Air Force is testing PlayStation 3 clusters for distributed computing research

I see crime scenes

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:00:00 MST

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.

Higley firing tied to alien-search software

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

a school district network administrator was fired for (among other things) running SETI@home on every school district computer without permission

Astronomers release galactic collision game

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project

Cloud to power research number-crunching

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

an overview of the BOINC computing platform and of 12 BOINC-based distributed computing projects

It�s a Zoo Out There

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

Galaxy Project Engages �Armchair Scientists�; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project

CERN's LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is influencing grid and cloud computing architecture and practices

Play the Galactic Slots

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Mergers project

Database details 2.7 million possible structures for molecular sieves

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MST

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.

Computers Around the World Unite

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Chinese, but you can read an English translation of it.

Cloud Computing Not Hype But Reality

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 MDT

La ciencia extiende su red de investigaci�n con la computaci�n voluntaria

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

(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.

Quake-Catcher Network seeks volunteers on campus to host seismic sensors

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a scientist at Stanford University wants students on the campus to attach seismic sensors to their laptops to support the Quake Catcher Network

La Universidad de Berkeley impulsa un superordenador de uso gratuito y universal

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

(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).

Volunteering Computers for Science

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Users Make Their Home PCs Available to Chase Medical Breakthroughs; a detailed overview of distributed computing projects, the BOINC computing platform, and Rosetta@Home

Volunteers Donate Idle Computing Power for Biomedical Research

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects and the BOINC computing platform

Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

45th Mersenne prime revealed

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

GIMPS grabs $100,000 for discovery

Wirbicki Law Group Seeks to Change the World...One Computer at a Time

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a law firm is encouraging other law firms to join it in participating in World Community Grid

UK Search Engine Takes on Google

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

Anthony Doesburg: Idle time put to work, all in the cause of science

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects, citizen science and BOINC

A new age for the oldest science

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of computational astronomy

Compuware Buys Gomez For $295 Million In Cash

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Gomez, the owner of the Gomez PEER project, will be owned by Compuware after November, 2009

Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a potentially controversial upcoming Distributed Human project/game

Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the upcoming EvoGrid project

Forget it Rhonda: Help, help me Einstein

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 MDT

"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."

BOINC, software open source per il grid computing

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 MDT

(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.

Link of the Week--Citizen Cyberspace

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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."

The "Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together" reaches phase 2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together completed Phase 1 on August 28, 2009, and is preparing for Phase 2

New project uses distributed computing to break GSM crypto

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the new A5/1 Security Project

Asian computers join forces against avian flu

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

Web of hope

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia

Cracking GSM phone crypto via distributed computing

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

Grid computing, the new commodity

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

the European GridEcon project has created a platform for buying and selling computing resources as a utility

Henry Markham (the Project Director of the Blue Brain project) Interview

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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"

Pupil hooks school up to search for aliens

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of a New Zealand high school student's successful project to set up his school's computers to participate in SETI@home

Grid helps to filter LIGO�s data

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

SETI telescope array produces first science results

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

English Wikipedia hits three million articles

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

New heroes with a hard drive

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia

Hunt for Supernovae With Galaxy Zoo

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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.

Why it's time to ditch Digsby

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

BOINC gets social with Facebook

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

World Community Grid...

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of World Community Grid

Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For Research

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

The Progress Through Processors app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for diseases, climate prediction, and malaria control

Rosetta@Home Stands to Gain Compute Power from Intel's New Facebook-based App

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Can Intel cure cancer with progress through processors?

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Your Mom�s Facebook Status: I�m Crunching Climate Data!

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Intel and Grid Republic have created a Progress Through Processors application for Facebook to allow Facebook users to contribute to BOINC-based projects

Donate Your Computer's Idle Time To a Good Cause On Facebook

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a short overview of the new Progress Through Processors application for Facebook

Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the Progress Through Processors application for Facebook

People's astronomy

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a great overview of current distributed computing and "citizen science" astronomy projects

47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits)

How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of the BOINC computing platform

IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project

Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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

SETI@home completes a decade of ET search

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began

A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

a summary of SETI@home's first ten years

Save the World with your PC

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate

National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

Mining For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of distributed computing projects searching for prime numbers, and of GIMPS in particular

IBM grid computing aids cancer research

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project

New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 MDT

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.

Folding@home now the world�s most powerful supercomputer

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

New ATI Catalyst 9.2 goes live

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

ATI (now AMD)'s new version 9.2 Catalyst driver provides multi-GPU support for Folding@home

Zweite Runde gestartet

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Help create an earthbound sun

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

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"

Neues Futter f�r Hobby-Astronomen

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques

Scientists proposed the solution of Fermi's paradox

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

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.

How to build a powerful distributed computer

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 MST

Extremadurathome: colaboraci�n ciudadana en proyectos cient�ficos

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Eficientan celdas solares

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Green it!

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of climateprediction.net

Parabon Computation puts idle processing power to work

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

an overview of Parabon Computation, which owns the Compute Against Cancer project

Perspectives on advancements in distributed computing

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

Hardcore gaming enthusiasts in bio project

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

an ovewrview of Folding@home's success with the Sony PlayStation 3 architecture

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: Astronomy Hits the Big Time

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(subscription required); Galaxy Zoo is making important new contributions to astronomy

A galaxy of helpful people

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

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

Help Mankind by Folding@Home

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

a short overview of Folding@home

Celle solari pi� efficienti e meno costose anche grazie al tuo PC!

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

La inteligencia colectiva se pone al servicio de la ciencia a trav�s de Internet

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Nvidia CUDA acelera la investigaci�n cient�fica

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

(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.

Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

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

The Universe Today Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 MST

Galaxy Zoo was voted one of Universe Today's top 10 scientific research projects of 2008