distributedcomputing.info updates

new, active Distributed Human project: Foldit

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Distributed Human project: Foldit lets you fold proteins into three-dimensional shapes and helps scientists to better predict how proteins fold into those shapes. The project/game began today.

Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors found a new Fermat factor

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

on May 3, Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors discovered Fermat factor 28949 * 2^48627 + 1 divides F48624

Care2's website offline next weekend to allow its data center to "go green"

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Care2, which manages several click charities listed on this site, will be down from 11 PM EST May 16 (4 AM UTC May 17) to 11 AM EST (4 PM UTC) May 19 while its back-end servers are upgraded. The new servers will be faster, will save 341,000 kilowatt-hours and will have abated 266 metric tons of CO2 (this is equivalent to eliminating CO2 emissions from the electricity use of 35.2 homes for one year)

News article: Your computers may help save climate

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.net

News article: Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game; an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game

News article: WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: WISDOM unplugged: malaria drug-leads graduate to the wet lab; the 30 most-promising drug candidates from the WISDOM grid project were tested in a physical lab and all were effective. Now they are being tested in living cultures of the malaria parasite.

new, active Charity: HungryChildren

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Charity: HungryChildren allows participants to click a button once per day to generate funds for a hungry child sponsored by the project

Riesel Sieve discovered prime 113983 * 2^3201175 - 1 (963,655 digits)

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Riesel Sieve discovered prime 113983 * 2^3201175 - 1 (963,655 digits) on May 1

News article: Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance; an overview of G�mez Performance Network Peer

News article: UK computing Grid "warming up for world�s largest experiment"

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: UK computing Grid "warming up for world's largest experiment;" an update of the U.K.'s GridPP computing grid and its readiness for data from the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project

News article: Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...

Sun, 04 May 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...; an overview of distributed computing projects

orbit@home is active

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

orbit@home is active as of March 4

Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors found a new Fermat factor

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

on April 19, Distributed Search for Fermat Number Divisors discovered Fermat factor 364182745 * 2^1724 + 1 divides F1722

SIGPS discovered 2 new primes

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

SIGPS discovered prime 99838222^16384 + 1 on April 18 and prime 167191 * 2^336091 - 1 on April 21

Version 3.0 of the D2OL client is available for Windows

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

version 3.0 of the D2OL client is available for Windows as of April 16. This client is also used for Community TSC. This version includes 3 new features: client-side task expiration; automatic monitoring and throttling of D2OL processes to maintain your computer's responsiveness; and multiprocessor support. Also, D2OL is now working on Avian Flu Target I and SARS Targets I and IV. Also, Community TSC is now working on TSC Targets IV, VI, and Ib.

News article: Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research

CHRONOS has ended

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

CHRONOS ended on March 31

CCGrid 2008 takes place next month

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

CCGrid 2008 takes place during May 19-22, 2008 in Lyons, France

Grid'2008 takes place in June

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Grid'2008 takes place during June 30 - July 4, 2008 in Dubna, Russia

PCGrid 2008 takes place on April 18

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

PCGrid 2008 takes place on April 18 in Miami, Florida

News article: Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined; an overview and beta test of Folding@home's new "GPU2" client. This new client supports all Radeon HD 2400 and above cards, up to the Radeon HD 3870 X2.

News article: First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray (login required)

News article: The age of the Grid

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: The age of the Grid; when CERN turns on the Large Hadron Collider later this summer it will also turn on The Grid, a data communications network 10,000 times faster than the Internet

2721 Search found prime 27 * 2^1108214 - 1

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

2721 Search found prime 27 * 2^1108214 - 1 on March 28

News article: Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age; the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries

News article: Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure; money and computing power cannot solve every problem

new, active Science project: Artificial Intelligence System

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Science project: Artificial Intelligence System is reverse engineering the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system

new, active Life Sciences project: Cels@Home

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Life Sciences project: Cels@Home is doing research in cell adhesion, studying the way cancer cells break free and move throughout the body

new, active Mathematics project: 3x+1@home

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Mathematics project: 3x+1@home is searching for high 3x+1 (Collatz) conjecture stopping times

Hydrogen@Home is now active

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

Hydrogen@Home is now active

MindModeling@Home beta testing is active

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

MindModeling@Home is not yet active, but you can help beta test it

new, active Science project: BRaTS

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Science project: BRaTS is doing "various calculations in Gravitational Ray Tracing." As of August 8, 2007, participation in the project is by invitation only.

new, active Charity: Hunger Fighters

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new, active Charity: Hunger Fighters allows participants to click a button once per day to donate a cup of food to fight hunger

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's George?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's George? tracks the geographic movement of U.S. dollar bills

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's Willy?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: Where's Willy? tracks the geographic movement of Canadian bank notes

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: EuroBillTracker

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

new (to this site), active Knowledge Base: EuroBillTracker tracks the geographic movement of Euro notes

the Dame Una Casa (Build Me a Home) Charity project ended last month

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

the Dame Una Casa (Build Me a Home) Charity project ended last month

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

News article: Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

News article: Money, infectious disease and Where�s George?

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Money, infectious disease and Where's George?; mathematical models derived from the Where's George? project, which shows the geographic spread of money, can also show the geographic spread of infectious disease

News article: Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project

News article: 'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 MDT

news article: 'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves; asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@Home