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 |