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Archived Distributed Computing News and Articles

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2003
Distributed Internet Backup System; distributed Internet-based peers can back up each others' data	Slashdot	January 31, 2003
Random chat solves distributed problem; each peer in a distributed computing network can check other, random peers to ensure that it is synchronized	New Scientist	January 30, 2003
Not Your Father's Encyclopedia; an overview of Wikipedia and its recent 100,000 article milestone	Wired News	January 28, 2003
Grid vendors target corporate applications	NetworkWorldFusion	January 27, 2003
I.B.M. to Announce Push on Grid Computing; an overview of IBM's plans to provide grid computing to business (free registration required to view article)	New York Times	January 26, 2003
Mapping the Galaxy with SETI@home; while searching for alien radio signals, SETI@home is also creating the most detailed map of the distribution of hydrogen in our galaxy	The Planetary Society	January 24, 2003
Scientists Giddy About the Grid; scientists are excited about the possibilities that grid computing will provide	Wired News	January 20, 2003
Grid Computing Good for Business; companies are taking a bigger interest in grid computing	Wired News	January 16, 2003
Group cracking Xbox 'for the public good'; another update on the NEO Project's Xbox challenge	ZDNet UK News	January 15, 2003
Techies challenge Microsoft: Canadians recruit world's computer users to crack secret code for Xbox game system	The Globe and Mail	January 13, 2003
HP To Demo Grid Computing: Exhibit will show how to manage programs written for Globus Toolkit using vendor's Utility Data Center Software	InformationWeek	January 13, 2003
Globus Toolkit 3.0 Delivers Grid Standards; this version of Globus implements the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)	the globus project	January 13, 2003
A Remarkable Dearth of Primes; information about Sierpinski numbers and Seventeen Or Bust	Science News Online	January 11, 2003
IBM launches supercomputing on demand	The Register	January 9, 2003
IBM Offers Processing on Demand; Wired News' version of the IBM supercomputing story	Wired News	January 9, 2003
X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended; The NEO Project stopped the challenge for legal reasons	Slashdot	January 7, 2003
PC army tackles Xbox security code	CNET Tech News	January 6, 2003
Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project; The NEO Project is attempting to break a 2048-bit private key that Microsoft uses to sign Xbox media	Slashdot	January 5, 2003
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, reaches its 100,000th article	Wikipedia	January, 2003
2002
Grid computing from Sun; an update on the features and capabilities of Sun Grid Engine	The Register	December 16, 2002
The race to computerise biology; an overview of bioinformatics and a mention of grid/distributed computing's role in it	The Economist	December 12, 2002
Computers' Shelf Life Gets Livelier: Gateway to Sell Harnessed Power of the PCs in Its Stores	The Washington Post	December 10, 2002
SETI@home Prepares to Revisit its Best Signals; some time in 2003, SETI@Home will get exclusive use of the Arecibo radio telescope for one day to recheck its 100 most promising signals	The Planetary Society	December 4, 2002
Global computing for bioinformatics; an overview of distributed computing and its applications in bioinformatics, with a focus on the evolution@home project	Briefings in Bioinformatics, vol. 3, no. 4 (via ingenta)	December, 2002
'Grid Computing' Is the Next Wave in High-Performance Computing	The Chronicle	November 27, 2002
gridMathematica announced; an overview and discussion about the grid-based version of the popular Mathematica software application	Slashdot	November 21, 2002
Measuring Folding@Home's performance impact: Can folding proteins slow you down?	The Tech Report	November 11, 2002
Just One Page a Day; Distributed Proofreaders gets Slashdotted and survives (and gets 15,000 pages proofread in one day instead of the usual 1,000)	Slashdot	November 8, 2002
Math whiz cracks encryption code; results of the ECCp-109 project	MSNBC News	November 6, 2002
Most Powerful Computer in Canada - for a Day; Canadian universities linked their computers for one day to solve a computation chemistry problem which would normally take six years to complete	Slashdot	November 3, 2002
SETI@home: An Experiment in Public-Resource Computing; a detailed technical overview of the SETI@home project from a distributed computing perspective	Communications of the ACM	November, 2002
Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home; some SETI@Home participants may be cheating, and damaging the project's reputation	ZDNet Australia	October 30, 2002
SETI@home-Inspired Biology Project Publishes First Scientific Results; Folding@Home's recent success from a SETI@home perspective	The Planetary Society	October 28, 2002
Malicious Distributed Computing; a "superworm,: a coordinated network of worm nodes could communicate with each other to "ensure optimal infection rates"	Slashdot	October 25, 2002
University of Alberta builds supercomputer in a day: National hook-up to solve molecular chemistry question	Edmonton Journal	October 22, 2002
Screensavers crack medical puzzle; another view of Folding@Home's recent success	BBC News	October 22, 2002
World's fastest data network approved: an overview of the TeraGrid project	the inquirer	October 21, 2002
PC Network Deciphers How Proteins Fold: Folding@Home has successfully simulated the folding of a small protein	San Francisco Chronicle	October 21, 2002
Donated computer power unfolds complex shape of proteins	CBC News	October 21, 2002
Together PCs forecast fold	Nature	October 21, 2002
Computer simulation yields disease insight	United Press International	October 20, 2002
Virtual proteins unravel real puzzles; interesting side-note: future versions of Folding@Home and climateprediction.net may share the BOINC platform with SETI@Home	MSNBC News	October 20, 2002
Internet PCs to Counter Bioterrorism: Find-a-Drug has started a project to find bioterrorism antidotes	Find-a-Drug	October 15, 2002
Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home: a funding crisis could shut down SETI@Home; (sources at SETI@Home say there is no funding crisis and that it's always difficult to get funding)	ZDNet Australia	October 15, 2002
Grid Iron: New grid networks put idle computing power to work; an overview of grid computing	Red Herring	October 11, 2002
Codebusters Crack Encryption Key; more news about the RC5-64 contest	Wired News	October 7, 2002
Gridbus Project Releases Grid Accounting Services Architecture; information about the new GridBank accounting infrastructure	Grid Computing Planet	October 3, 2002
Library of Congress Taps the Grid; it's looking at using grid technology to manage its American Memory project containing 7.5 million digital records	Wired News	October 2, 2002
Upgrades to Boost SETI@home Alien Search; an overview of the new software and of the "new" telescope the next phase of SETI@Home will use	Space.com	October 1, 2002
Gómez Acquisition Of Porivo Technologies Creates World's Largest Internet Performance Monitoring Infrastructure	Gómez	September 30, 2002
distributed.net Completes RC5-64 Project; the winning key was found July 14, 2002 and the message was "The unknown message is: some things are better left unread"	distributed.net	September 25, 2002
JXTA-based P2P Toolkit Enables Utility Computing	Grid Computing Planet	September 17, 2002
Grid Computing: Electrifying Web Services; an overview of the Open Grid Service Architecture (OSGA)	Web Services Journal	September 10, 2002
Computer Grids Promise Leap in Computing Power	Yahoo! Finance	September 1, 2002
University of Melbourne Expands Grid Work; more information about the Gridbus project	Grid Computing Planet	August 20, 2002
The Gridbus Project: Enabling Service-Oriented Grid Computing and Business; information about the Gridbus project	GRIDtoday	August 19, 2002
Amateur Quest For Lychrel Numbers; information about an upcoming mathematics distributed computing project	Slashdot	August 18, 2002
Open Sourcers Say Grid is Good; news about corporate efforts in grid computing software development	Wired News	August 15, 2002
Australian grid computing: Creating science fact	ZDNet Australia	August 9, 2002
A primer on distributed computing	Kuro5hin	August 2, 2002
Solving Problems at Arecibo; the new SETI@Home radio receiver was installed on July 24, 2002, and is collecting new data	The Planetary Society	August 1, 2002
The Cell - Power for Playstation 3 and ...More; more information about the use of grid computing to make the PlayStation 3 up to 1000 times more powerful than the PlayStation 2	PlaySation Reporter	July 22, 2002
Distributed Chess Computing Project; a note about the new ChessBrain project	Slashdot	June 9, 2002
Bootcamp 225: screensavers; a short history of screensavers, and a short paragraph on how they are used for distributed computing	telegraph.co.uk	May 13, 2002
Building a Worldwide Lexicon	O'Reilly Networks	May 10, 2002
IBM brings grid computing to games	Yahoo! News	May 9, 2002
Worldwide weather watchers wanted; an overview and updated of the climateprediction.com weather simulation project	BBC News	May 7, 2002
KaZaA Sneakware Stirs Inside PCs; another article about the Altnet trojan distributed computing software hidden in KaZaA	CNN.com	May 7, 2002
Now Anyone Can Discover a Comet; you can find undiscovered comets by looking at images from SOHO	Wired News	May 6, 2002
KaZaA Users Brace for Hijack; the Altnet trojan distributed computing software hidden in KaZaA will be activated in about a month	The Age	May 3, 2002
SETI@Home Project Nears Milestone	washingtonpost.com	April 29, 2002
SETI@Home Close to Half-Billionth Result (the user who returns that result will get US$500)	Slashdot	April 28, 2002
Supercomputing '@Home' Paying Off for Other Research (a free subscription is required to view this article)	The New York Times	April 23, 2002
How Do You Spell E.T. in Swahili?; another article about the World Wide Lexicon distributed human project	Wired News	April 10, 2002
Distributed Program to Translate Many Languages: the World Wide Lexicon distributed human project will use human volunteers to translate text	New Scientist	April 2, 2002
Stealth P2P Network Hides Inside Kazaa: hidden software could be used for distributed computing	CNET News	April 1, 2002
Hosting Problems for distributed.net	Slashdot	March 26, 2002
IBM to Link Government Computers in Powerful Grid	Yahoo! News	March 22, 2002
Energy Dept., IBM to unveil Science Grid	CNET News	March 21, 2002
PlayStation 3: The next generation; distributed computing could be used in the next PlayStation	CNET News	March 21, 2002
Home PCs join together as virtual supercomputer	USA Today	March 19, 2002
Sanger Institute Cracks Chromosome 20 With Grid Power	Grid Computing Planet	March 12, 2002
Home PCs speed anthrax cure project	CNET News	March 8, 2002
Software finds possible anthrax cures: data on 300,000 potential drugs handed over to officials	MSNBC	March 8, 2002
Working the web: P2P technology: peer to peer technology is far more useful than just swapping music files	Guardian Unlimited	March 7, 2002
India Joins Super (Grid) Powers	Wired News	March 5, 2002
The Worldwide Computer: An operating system spanning the Internet would bring the power of millions of the world's Internet-connected PCs to everyone's fingertips; a good overview of how an ISOS (Internet-Scale Operating System) would work	Scientfic American	March 2, 2002
Distributed Computing Newsgroup Approved	Enterprise News	March 1, 2002
Mac Cluster's Last Stand?; Apple's G4 PowerMacs are powerful, but the wrong shape for stacking into clusters	Wired News	February 22, 2002
'Distributed' Web Projects Raise Security Issues	Newsbytes	February 21, 2002
Grid computing luring mainstream backers; IBM, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems are getting into the grid computing game	Yahoo! News	February 21, 2002
The Grid Draws Its Battle Lines; an open-source project challenges Microsoft's .Net	Wired News	February 20, 2002
Seti@Home Bandwidth Problems; SETI@Home doesn't have enough bandwidth to handle its 3 million volunteers	Slashdot	February 18, 2002
The Grid: A New Infrastructure for 21st Century Science	Physics Today	February, 2002
Distributed's New Word: Please; learn from McOwen's case: get permission before you run distributed software on someone else's computer	Wired News	January 24, 2002
PCs tapped to help fight anthrax: a coalition of scientists and technology companies is asking people around the world to use their computers' extra processing power to help search for a cure for anthrax	CNN.com	January 22, 2002
State drops distributed-computing dispute; David McOwen will pay just $2,100 and serve 80 hours of community service rather than face 30 years in jail	CNET News	January 17, 2002
Toolset teams computers to design drugs	Technology Research News	January 16, 2002
Investigating the "Fabric of the Universe"; SETI@Home data will be used to search for undiscovered pulsars	The Planetary Society	January 9, 2002
GridSim Releases Java-based Grid Computing Toolkit	Grid Computing Planet	January 4, 2002
Distributing the Search for Cures; a good overview of Sengent and its D2OL project	Wired News	January 3, 2002
2001
Is Distributed Computing A Crime?: A computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in a Georgia prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission from his boss. Prosecutors say its justice, others aren't so sure	SecurityFocus	December 20, 2001
A Prime Discovery; 213,466,917 - 1 was discovered to be prime on November 14, 2001	Grid Computing Planet	December 17, 2001
Sengent Teams With Sun Microsystems in Effort to Rapidly Accelerate Identification of Drugs Against Biological Weapons: Sengent's Launch Last Week of Its Drug Design and Optimization Lab Against Bioterrorism Has Drawn a Significant Positive Response From The Public and Corporate Sectors	Sun Microsystems	December 17, 2001
Researchers Discover Largest Multi-Million-Digit Prime Using Entropia Distributed Computing Grid: 213,466,917-1 is now the Largest Known Prime	mersenne.org	December 6, 2001
Sun Opens New Processor Design Compute Ranch: New Facility Underscores Commitment to Keeping UltraSPARC(TM) Product Line At The Head of Its Class	Yahoo! Finance	November 30, 2001
Virtul Astronomy: Now Anyone Can Make a Discovery	SPACE.com	November 20, 2001
Famed Lab Seeks Big Grid; CERN is launching the European DataGRID project to process data from its new supercollider	Wired News	November 20, 2001
(Mostly) Confirmed: New Mersenne Prime Found; Mersenne prime number #39 (3.5 million digits long) has been found but not yet verified	Slashdot	November 14, 2001
Intel Backs Protein Project; Intel will support the Folding@Home project	Wired News	October 6, 2001
Seti@home Expands Its Back Yard: SETI@Home will increase the band of electromagnetic spectrum it analyzes and will look at 20 times more data	Wired News	October 6, 2001
Parabon Announces Strategic Agreement with Celera: Next Generation Distributed Computing Solutions To Accelerate Proteomics Research	Parabon Computation	October 23, 2001
Beyond the Browser: Rediscovering the Role of the Desktop in a Net-centric World	Fourth World	September 26, 2001
The Little Screensaver That Could; a good overview of Folding@Home and its progress so far	Wired News	September 21, 2001
Devices Unite to Find Drugs; a good overview of United Devices and its progress so far	Wired News	September 21, 2001
Who's Been Using Your PC?; through "parasitic computing," someone could use your Internet-connected PC for distributed computing without your knowledge	Nature	August 30, 2001
Beyond the Web: an interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch; the founder of Gridware talks about the current and future directions of grid computing	Sun Microsystems, Inc.	August 17, 2001
Making P2P Interoperable: The Jxta story	developerWorks	August 14, 2001
A Grid of Supercomputers; U.S. taxpayers get to spend US$53 million to do projects that we volunteers are already doing for free	Wired News	August 9, 2001
I.B.M. Making a Commitment to Next Phase of the Internet; IBM begins a grid computing initiative	New York Times	August 2, 2001
DALi Announces Availability of Largest, Distributed Artificial-Life Platform; DALiWorld creates a virtual ocean on users' computers around the world	Los Angeles Technology News	July 30, 2001
Colon Cancer Alliance Supporters Compute Against Cancer: Parabon's Fundraising Program Helps Bring the Voice of Survivors to Cancer Research	Parabon Computation	July 24, 2001
Sun Microsystems Makes Sun(TM) Grid Engine Software Available To Open Source Community: Sun Works With CollabNet to Continue Its Strong Support of Open Computing And Encourage Adoption of Powerful Grid Computing Model	Yahoo! Finance	July 23, 2001
Tackling Puzzles PC by PC: Millions volunteer their home and office computers to crunch data over the Net to aid scientific and medical studies. For some, it's a heated competition.	Los Angeles Times	July 12, 2001
Use P2P, Go to Jail. Any Questions?	O'Reilly P2P	July 10, 2001
Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000; the State of Georgia prosecutes a distributed.net user for running RC5 on the school computers he configured for them two years ago	Slashdot	July 8, 2001
Pin a Red Ribbon on Your Computer; a short overview of some of the medical distributed computing projects	Kiplinger's Personal Finance	July, 2001
Putting the Profit in Internet-based DS (I am quoted in this article)	IEEE Distributed Systems Online	July, 2001
Workers' search for aliens irks TVA Warning issued on use of computers	The Knoxville News-Sentinel	June 16, 2001
Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit	The New York Times	June 3, 2001
SETI PROJECT TURNS DOWN ALIEN HELP: Extraterrestrial Search "Going Just Fine" Without Extraterrestrial Interference (satire)	SatireWire	June, 2001
Invaders exploit SETI@home: Mischief-makers harvest e-mail addresses for mass mailing	MSNBC	May 30, 2001
The Search for E.T. Yields Earthly Cheats	The New York Times	May 24, 2001
Use your PC to fight cancer, hunt aliens and more; a good overview of the current popular projects	CNN Europe	May 21, 2001
Computing for Cancer Research: Screensaver program allows for computational chemistry research on "virtual supercomputer"	The Scientist	May 14, 2001
Calling All PCs: Biotech: Home computers help to find a cure for disease	Technology Review	May, 2001
Distributed Computing Software Now Available for Linux: Linux Users Help Build the Most Powerful, On-Demand Computing Platform; information about Parabon's new Linux client	Parabon Computation	April 24, 2001
Entropia Powers Financial Experts' Critical Research into Stock Market Volatility: Computationally intense research made possible by Entropia's global grid of PCs	Entropia	April 5, 2001
SETI founder speaks about Intel P2P cancer project	The Register	April 5, 2001
Philanthropy Redefined; a negative, badly-researched opinion piece about United Devices' new cancer research project	Slashdot	April 3, 2001
Screensaver helps fight against cancer: a good overview of the official release of United Devices' cancer fighting project	Yahoo! Finance	April 3, 2001
Mr. P. and the Crunchy Desktop: Mr. P. explores the notion of leaving on your computer 24x7 so outsiders can borrow your spare cycles. It's nice to share--but not always (downloadable PDF file)	Server/Workstation Expert	April, 2001
Business Computing Isn't Where The Action Is Going to Be: "Scientific computing is going to be where the action is"	O'Reilly Network	March 25, 2001
It's lights out at Popular Power; selfish venture capitalists, not the distributed computing market, killed Popular Power	Red Herring	March 22, 2001
Distributed computing loses luster; the demise of Popular Power (article no longer available)	Yahoo! News	March 19, 2001
Home computers help scientists; highlights Parabon Computation's cancer research project	50Plus.com	March 14, 2001
Virtual Supercomputers Sign Up for Business: Vendors orchestrate thousands of PCs to tackle truly tough problems	Technology Review	March 13, 2001
Sharing the power: Peer-to-peer technology draws supercomputing power from home PCs	The San Diego Union-Tribune	March 13, 2001
The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet?: the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving	Wired News	March 12, 2001
PCs of the World, Unite!: Startup Entropia, and others, hope to solve vexing problems by pooling millions of underused computers into powerful networks	Business Week Online Daily Briefing	March 9, 2001
Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower	The New York Times	March 8, 2001
Saving Lives with P2P: With distributed computing, scientists improve vaccines, research cancer, share medical records; good information on Popular Power's flu vaccine project and Parabon's cancer research	OpenP2P.com	March 1, 2001
Distributed Computing - the SETI@home project: Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem	Ariadne	March, 2001
The search for E.T. has been put on hold, apparently by low-tech vandals	CNET.com Tech News	February 28, 2001
Distributed computing harnesses power of the Web	CNN.com	February 26, 2001
Nearly 3 million volunteers join search for alien life	Salon.com	February 25, 2001
Joy Poses JXTA Initiative: Pushing the Boundaries of Distributed Computing; Sun Microsystems' Bill Joy discusses his new JAVA- and JINI-based distributed computing platform at the O'Reilly P-2-P Conference	java.sun.com	February 22, 2001
Parabon Computation's Compute Against CancerSM Program Speeds Analysis of Protein Folding: Parabon Provides Critical Resources to Renowned University of Maryland Researchers	Parabon Computation	February 20, 2001
Genome Effort Hits Home; a detailed article about the Genome@home project	Wired News	February 17, 2001
Peer-to-Peer Show Begins Without Napster: Conference highlights larger potential of distributed-computing methods	Wired News	February 16, 2001
Entropia Selected by SolidSpeed to Optimize Web Site Measurement Services, Announced at the O'Reilly Peer-To-Peer Conference: Entropia's distributed computing grid provides SolidSpeed's Probester customers with Web site 'proof of performance'	Entropia	February 15, 2001
Cheaters Bow to Peer Pressure	Wired News	February 15, 2001
Porivo Technologies Launches First Web Performance Testing Application Powered by Peer-to-Peer Distributed Computing Technology: Porivo's real-world Web performance testing service utilizes spare computing capacity from a distributed network of PCs	Porivo Technologies	February 14, 2001
Entropia Announces 3rd Generation Distributed Computing Platform at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference: Entropia 3000 server and client software bring unprecedented security and benefits	Entropia	February 13, 2001
Parabon and CCNetwork Inaugurate Partnership during National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month	Parabon Computation	February 6, 2001
Projects with Power to Burn: California's power crisis is having little effect on distributed computing projects	Wired News	February 6, 2001
Juno Pulls Out All the Starts; Juno Online will pay for its free ISP by requiring users to run distributed computing projects for it	Wired News	February 2, 2001
Sun Announces Sun Grid Engine 5.2 Software for the Linux Platform	Yahoo! Finance	January 31, 2001
Gnutella puts up fight for Web elite; Gnutella2 will not only have file sharing, it will have a plug-in for distributed computing applications	CNET.com Tech News	January 29, 2001
CPUs For Rent: Broadband connection fires up distributed computing; highlights DataSynapse	Broadband Week	January 22, 2001
Porivo Technologies and The Daily Jolt Extend Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Computing Technology to Nationwide Campus Network	Porivo Technologies	January 17, 2001
Parabon Sweepstakes A Win For Cancer Research: Sweepstakes Winner Donates Proceeds to Cancer Treatment Research Foundation	Parabon Computation	January 9, 2001
The CPU Cure; a good overview of the FightAIDS@home project	Wired Magazine	January, 2001
Popular Power Builds One of the World's Largest Distributed Computing Platforms on BEA WebLogic Server: New Distributed Platform to Be Used to Optimize Flu Vaccines and Perform Other Massively Computation-Intensive Jobs	Popular Power	January, 2001
SETI@home: Massively Distributed Computing for SETI; in-depth information about the SETI@home project by members of the SETI@home development team	IEEE Computer Society	January, 2001
2000
No Alien Idea: How Distributed Computing will Change the Web	ZDNet	December 27, 2000
Zeroing In on Catalan's Conjecture: a new distributed computing project is working to solve this problem	Science News Online	December 23, 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
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

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