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Parabon Sweepstakes A Win For Cancer Research: Sweepstakes Winner Donates Proceeds to Cancer Treatment Research Foundation | Parabon Computation | January 9, 2001 |
No Alien Idea: How Distributed Computing will Change the Web | ZDNet | December 27, 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 |
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