| Archived Distributed Computing News and Articles |
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| 2010 | ||
| EC funds grid computing project: The European Commission has announced that it will provide 25 million Euros of funding to a pan-European grid computing project | THINQ.co.uk | September 15, 2010 |
| Australian universities to leverage crowd power for new water filters; a short overview of World Community Grid's new Computing for Clean Water project | Fluid Handling | September 9, 2010 |
| Computer theft solved thanks to BOINC; a stolen laptop running the WUProp@Home project was able to be tracked and recovered | SETI Germany | September 4, 2010 |
| Volunteers' Idle Computer Time Turns Up a Celestial Oddball; Einstein@Home made its first discovery, a "disrupted binary pulsar 17,000 light-years away [from Earth] rotating more than 40 times a second, that had broken free of its binary companion" | Scientific American | August 15, 2010 |
| 20 Quadrillion Muons--Muon1 hits milestone; the Distributed Particle Accelerator Design project recently hit an important milestone | Politics and P2P | July 16, 2010 |
| Crowdsourcing the search for aliens: 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 | O'Reilly Radar | July 12, 2010 |
| Volunteer computing helps rescue oiled Gulf Coast wildlife; 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 | International Science Grid this Week | July 7, 2010 |
| Launch of The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2; an overview of the second phase of World Community Grid's The Clean Energy Project | World Community Grid | June 28, 2010 |
| NASA Needs You: 6 Ways to Help an Astronomer; an overview of six Distributed Human projects | Wired Magazine | June 28, 2010 |
| Astronomers Solve The Mystery of Hanny's Voorwerp; astronomers have classified a mysterious object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant in 2007 | Technology Review | June 24, 2010 |
| 7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars; 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. | SPACE.com | June 21, 2010 |
| IBM, Volunteers Help Locate Anti-Cancer Drugs | CIOUpdate.com | June 17, 2010 |
| Surplus PC Power Yields Faster Cancer Research: World Community Grid project automates tedious process to determine if protein samples are ready for x-ray examination | IBM | June 15, 2010 |
| ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home: French startup ViFiB thinks it can find a niche somewhere between Amazon Web Services and SETI@home | Network World | June 14, 2010 |
| How your PC can help science: Help save the world, one processor cycle at a time | TechRadar UK | June 13, 2010 |
| Your computer at the service of science, exclusive interview to the director of seti@home and BOINC: David P. Anderson | seti cl | June 13, 2010 |
| Can’t build? You can observe; an overview of "citizen science" projects and the new Science for Citizens website which tracks these projects | NashuaTelegraph.com | June 7, 2010 |
| Higley schools pull space-search software from 5,000 computers; 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 | azcentral.com | June 6, 2010 |
| A Better Rice for the World; an interview with Dr. Ram Samudrala, the head of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project | Alexander Janssen's Blog | May 19, 2010 |
| Take a Virtual Moonwalk for Science; a podcast about the new Moon Zoo project | Scientific American | May 13, 2010 |
| Today's Fast Company Assignment: Do Cancer Research in Your Sleep; a short overview of World Community Grid and some of its projects | Fast Company | April 28, 2010 |
| Stardust@Home is a Time Waster with real astronomical significance; an overview of Stardust@Home | DownloadSquad | April 22, 2010 |
| World Community Grid’s "Nutritious Rice for the World" project comes to an end | thinkdigit | April 21, 2010 |
| Quake-Catcher Network: Help Improve Earthquake Awareness and Science!; an overview of Quake Catcher Network | Greenfudge.org | April 21, 2010 |
| WCG China projects; World Community Grid is looking for potential projects in China | Global Times | April 20, 2010 |
| End of Nutritious Rice for the World project; World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project ended successfully on April 6, 2010, generating 7 billion protein folding models | World Community Grid | April 13, 2010 |
| SuperDonate Inc. Creates an Application to Earn Money for Charity; an overview of SuperDonate | Smart Data Centers | April 8, 2010 |
| How to Classify a Million Galaxies in Three Weeks; an overview of Galaxy Zoo | TIME | March 28, 2010 |
| Fixing Reality with Online Games; an overview of EVOKE | h+ Magazine | March 24, 2010 |
| Case Study: Einstein@OSG; Einstein@Home has been adapted to run on Open Science Grid, which is contributing at least 10% of the project's computing power | International Science Grid This Week | March 17, 2010 |
| SuperDonate, Inc. Releases Software that Donates Unused Computing Power to Charity; an overview of the new SuperDonate charity | PR-inside.com | March 17, 2010 |
| The lonely but hopeful search for life off earth; a review of SETI and SETI@Home's progress | SignOnSanDiego.com | March 15, 2010 |
| Volunteer for 'White Hat Botnets'; an overview of distributed computing projects | Internet Evolution | March 15, 2010 |
| By Your Accelerometers Combined, I Am Quake Catcher!; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network | Gizmodo | March 12, 2010 |
| Laptops could be key to an earthquake early-warning system; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | Los Angeles Times | March 11, 2010 |
| First Cosmic Dust May Have Been Discovered By Crowdsource Hero; Stardust@Home and participant Bruce Hudson may have discovered the project's first interstellar dust particle | Gizmodo Australia | March 7, 2010 |
| Distributed Computing Helps in AIDS Fight | medGadget | March 3, 2010 |
| Two Compounds Discovered That Pave the Way for New Class of AIDS Drug; two chemical compounds discovered by fightAIDS@home make possible a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs | PR Newswire | March 2, 2010 |
| Rise of the Citizen Scientists; how distributed computing projects are enabling average people to be scientists and to contribute to scientfic research | The Tyee | March 2, 2010 |
| MakerCulture: Dr. Everyman; an overview of Folding@home and other distributed computing projects | rabble.ca | February 26, 2010 |
| Virtualization - Key for LHC physics volunteer computing; 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 | International Science Grid this Week | February 24, 2010 |
| Are we missing E.T.'s call?; a review of SETI's progress over its 50-year history | Singularity Hub | February 22, 2010 |
| Use Your Idle Computer Time to Save the World; an overview of World Community Grid's distributed computing projects | Singularity Hub | February 22, 2010 |
| FightAIDS@Home with your computer; a short overview of distributed computing projects and fightAIDS@home | Chicago Now Blogs | February 19, 2010 |
| Launch of Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2; phase 2 of World Community Grid's Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project has begun | World Community Grid | February 17, 2010 |
| You can help map the Milky Way galaxy; an overview of MilkyWay@home | iTWire | February 16, 2010 |
| Six Cool Distributed Computing Projects; short and funny overviews of six distributed computing projects | UpRoxx | February 15, 2010 |
| Distributed PC Network Helps Map Milky Way; a short overview of MilkyWay@home | PC Magazine | February 12, 2010 |
| Milky Way Map Produced by Home Computers; an overview of MilkyWay@home | Softpedia | February 11, 2010 |
| PCs around the world unite to map the Milky Way; an overview of MilkyWay@home | PHYSORG.com | February 10, 2010 |
| Majestic-12 search engine in funding boost from eBay entrepreneur; Majestic-12 will use new funding from an eBay company to add to its infrastructure and improve website crawling and indexing times | Birmingham Post | February 4, 2010 |
| Scripps Research Scientists Find Two Compounds that Lay the Foundation for a New Class of AIDS Drug; fightAIDS@home has discovered a completely new type of AIDS-fighting drugs | Frontier India Pharmaceutical News | February 3, 2010 |
| IBM Enlists Mickey Mouse for Smarter Planet; 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 | IT Business Edge | January 29, 2010 |
| Find aliens with distributed computing; a short overview of distributed computing projects and SETI@Home | Web User | January 25, 2010 |
| You Can Run Scientific Experiments in Your Own Home; an overview of various distributed computing projects | PlanetPOV | January 23, 2010 |
| vSwarm: a Free Render Farm In the Cloud; a short overview of the new vSwarm project | Vizworld | January 19, 2010 |
| IBM: Suomen Syöpäyhdistys lahjoittaa palvelinaikaa syöpätutkimukselle World Community Grid -laskenta (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. | TIEKE | January 18, 2010 |
| GSM encryption crack made public; an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project | LWN.net | January 6, 2010 |
| 2009 | ||
| One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed: 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 | Ars Technica | December 30, 2009 |
| One leg of GSM encryption cracked, cell industry unimpressed; an overview of GSM encryption cracking and the A5/1 Security Project | ars technica | December 29, 2009 |
| Cooperación global (Global Cooperation); an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Spanish, but you can read an English translation of it. | La Nacion | December 28, 2009 |
| Birmingham's Majestic-12 nipping at Google's heels; Majestic-12 is only the second search engine in the world to join the "webmap trillionaires club"--the first is Google. | Birmingham Post | December 18, 2009 |
| Search for ET requires upgrade to 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches; 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 | SearchNetworking.com | December 16, 2009 |
| Scientists: Tweets after an earthquake could aid emergency workers; scientists may some day be able to mine crowdsourced data such as tweets to quickly identify earthquakes and other disasters | Yahoo Tech Blogs | December 15, 2009 |
| A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing; 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 | New York Times | December 14, 2009 |
| Are we really alone?; a short history of the search for alien life and alien intelligence | The National | December 14, 2009 |
| Air Force Taps PlayStation 3 for Research; the U.S. Air Force is testing PlayStation 3 clusters for distributed computing research | The Industry Standard | December 7, 2009 |
| I see crime scenes; 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. | International Science Grid this Week | December 2, 2009 |
| Higley firing tied to alien-search software; a school district network administrator was fired for (among other things) running SETI@home on every school district computer without permission | azcentral.com | November 30, 2009 |
| Astronomers release galactic collision game: Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | BBC News | November 25, 2009 |
| Cloud to power research number-crunching | ZDNet Asia | November 25, 2009 |
| How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC computing platform and of 12 BOINC-based distributed computing projects | PC World Australia | November 25, 2009 |
| It’s a Zoo Out There: Galaxy Project Engages ‘Armchair Scientists’; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo Mergers project | George Mason University News | November 24, 2009 |
| CERN's LHC pioneers quantum leap in cloud computing; CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project is influencing grid and cloud computing architecture and practices | Computer Weekly | November 23, 2009 |
| Play the Galactic Slots; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's new Mergers project | MSNBC Cosmic Log | November 23, 2009 |
| Database details 2.7 million possible structures for molecular sieves; 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. | nanowerk | November 2, 2009 |
| Computers Around the World Unite; an overview of distributed computing projects. This article is written in Chinese, but you can read an English translation of it. | news.163.com | November 1, 2009 |
| Cloud Computing Not Hype But Reality | Network Computing | November, 2009 |
| La ciencia extiende su red de investigación con la computación voluntaria (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. | Wall Street Journal Online | October 29, 2009 |
| Quake-Catcher Network seeks volunteers on campus to host seismic sensors; a scientist at Stanford University wants students on the campus to attach seismic sensors to their laptops to support the Quake Catcher Network | Stanford News | October 27, 2009 |
| La Universidad de Berkeley impulsa un superordenador de uso gratuito y universal (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). | elPeriódico.com | October 23, 2009 |
| Volunteering Computers for Science: Users Make Their Home PCs Available to Chase Medical Breakthroughs; a detailed overview of distributed computing projects, the BOINC computing platform, and Rosetta@Home | Wall Street Journal Online | October 20, 2009 |
| Volunteers Donate Idle Computing Power for Biomedical Research; an overview of distributed computing projects and the BOINC computing platform | iHealthBeat | October 20, 2009 |
| Record 12-Million-Digit Prime Number Nets $100,000 Prize; 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 | Electronic Frontier Foundation | October 14, 2009 |
| 45th Mersenne prime revealed: GIMPS grabs $100,000 for discovery | The Register | October 14, 2009 |
| Wirbicki Law Group Seeks to Change the World...One Computer at a Time; a law firm is encouraging other law firms to join it in participating in World Community Grid | dsnews.com | October 13, 2009 |
| UK Search Engine Takes on Google; 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 | PRWeb | October 12, 2009 |
| Anthony Doesburg: Idle time put to work, all in the cause of science; an overview of distributed computing projects, citizen science and BOINC | New Zealand Herald News | October 12, 2009 |
| A new age for the oldest science; an overview of computational astronomy | International Science Grid this Week | October 7, 2009 |
| Compuware Buys Gomez For $295 Million In Cash; Gomez, the owner of the Gomez PEER project, will be owned by Compuware after November, 2009 | TechCrunchIT | October 7, 2009 |
| Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise'; an overview of a potentially controversial upcoming Distributed Human project/game | Mail Online | October 5, 2009 |
| Your Screen Saver Could Help Create New Life; an overview of the upcoming EvoGrid project | Popular Science | September 29, 2009 |
| Forget it Rhonda: Help, help me Einstein; "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." | Symmetry Magazine | September 10, 2009 |
| BOINC, software open source per il grid computing (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. | Programmazione.it | September 10, 2009 |
| Link of the Week--Citizen Cyberspace; 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." | International Science Grid this Week | September 9, 2009 |
| The "Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together" reaches phase 2; Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together completed Phase 1 on August 28, 2009, and is preparing for Phase 2 | thinkdigit | August 28, 2009 |
| New project uses distributed computing to break GSM crypto; an overview of the new A5/1 Security Project | The Tech Herald | August 28, 2009 |
| Asian computers join forces against avian flu; 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 | International Science Grid This Week | August 26, 2009 |
| Web of hope; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | Western Weekender Penrith Online | August 26, 2009 |
| Cracking GSM phone crypto via distributed computing; 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 | CNET News | August 25, 2009 |
| Grid computing, the new commodity; the European GridEcon project has created a platform for buying and selling computing resources as a utility | ICT Results | August 24, 2009 |
| Henry Markham (the Project Director of the Blue Brain project) Interview; 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" | Next Big Future | August 24, 2009 |
| Pupil hooks school up to search for aliens; an overview of a New Zealand high school student's successful project to set up his school's computers to participate in SETI@home | Otago Daily Times Online | August 21, 2009 |
| Grid helps to filter LIGO’s data; 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 | International Science Grid This Week | August 19, 2009 |
| SETI telescope array produces first science results; 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 | New Scientist | August 18, 2009 |
| English Wikipedia hits three million articles | The Guardian | August 17, 2009 |
| New heroes with a hard drive; a short overview of BOINC and distributed computing volunteers in Australia | The Sydney Morning Herald | August 16, 2009 |
| Hunt for Supernovae With Galaxy Zoo | Universe Today | August 13, 2009 |
| Digsby Joins the Dark Side, Uses Your PC to Make Money; 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. | lifehacker | August 13, 2009 |
| Why it's time to ditch Digsby; 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 | Download.com | August 13, 2009 |
| BOINC gets social with Facebook | International Science Grid This Week | August 12, 2009 |
| World Community Grid...; a short overview of World Community Grid | examiner.com | August 8, 2009 |
| Intel Facebook App Taps Idle PCs For Research: The Progress Through Processors app lets users donate idle PC hours to help work on cures for diseases, climate prediction, and malaria control | InformationWeek | August 7, 2009 |
| Rosetta@Home Stands to Gain Compute Power from Intel's New Facebook-based App | GenomeWeb | August 7, 2009 |
| Can Intel cure cancer with progress through processors? | ITWire | August 6, 2009 |
| Your Mom’s Facebook Status: I’m Crunching Climate Data!; Intel and Grid Republic have created a Progress Through Processors application for Facebook to allow Facebook users to contribute to BOINC-based projects | Wired Magazine | August 5, 2009 |
| Donate Your Computer's Idle Time To a Good Cause On Facebook; a short overview of the new Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | Popular Science | August 5, 2009 |
| Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power; an overview of the Progress Through Processors application for Facebook | CNET News | August 3, 2009 |
| People's astronomy; a great overview of current distributed computing and "citizen science" astronomy projects | IET Knowledge Network | July 6, 2009 |
| 47th Mersenne Prime Confirmed; GIMPS confirmed on June 12, 2009, that it discovered the 47th known Mersenne prime, 2^42,643,801 - 1 (12.8 million digits) | Slashdot Science | June 13, 2009 |
| How Your Computer Can Benefit All of Mankind; an overview of the BOINC computing platform | dish Magazine | June, 2009 |
| IBM and Medical Researchers Launch Effort To Find Flu Drug Treatments; an overview of World Community Grid's new Influenza Antiviral Drug Research project | IT News Online | May 5, 2009 |
| Extraterrestrials, Computers, and Open Source; 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 | PCMag.com Blogs | May 4, 2009 |
| SETI@home completes a decade of ET search; a summary of SETI@home's progress in the ten years since it began | PHYSORG.com | May 1, 2009 |
| A decade of helping in the hunt for alien life; a summary of SETI@home's first ten years | siliconrepublic.com | April 30, 2009 |
| Save the World with your PC: Distributed Computing at Home; an overview of distributed computing projects, BOINC, and how to participate | When I Have Time | April 24, 2009 |
| National Science Foundation Awards Millions to Fourteen Universities for Cloud Computing Research | National Science Foundation News | April 23, 2009 |
| Mining For The 'Prime' Jewels Of Numbers; an overview of distributed computing projects searching for prime numbers, and of GIMPS in particular | National Public Radio | April 10, 2009 |
| IBM grid computing aids cancer research; an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Fight Childhood Cancer project | Silicon Republic | March 25, 2009 |
| New Einstein@Home Effort Launched Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars; 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. | SpaceRef | March 24, 2009 |
| Folding@home now the world’s most powerful supercomputer | Custom PC | February 24, 2009 |
| New ATI Catalyst 9.2 goes live; ATI (now AMD)'s new version 9.2 Catalyst driver provides multi-GPU support for Folding@home | Fudzilla | February 22, 2009 |
| Zweite Runde gestartet: (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. | gulli | February 20, 2009 |
| Help create an earthbound sun; 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" | International Science Grid This Week | February 18, 2009 |
| Neues Futter für Hobby-Astronomen: (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. | Spiegel Online | February 17, 2009 |
| Crunching the Data for the Tree of Life; maintaining, searching and visualizing the "tree" model of evolution for all species requires more computing power and advanced computing techniques | The New York Times | February 10, 2009 |
| Scientists proposed the solution of Fermi's paradox; 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. | Data Manager | February 2, 2009 |
| How to build a powerful distributed computer | TechRadar UK | February 1, 2009 |
| Extremadurathome: colaboración ciudadana en proyectos científicos (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. | barrapunto.com | January 30, 2009 |
| Eficientan celdas solares (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. | El Manaña | January 24, 2009 |
| Green it!; a short overview of climateprediction.net | The University Daily Kansan | January 22, 2009 |
| Parabon Computation puts idle processing power to work; an overview of Parabon Computation, which owns the Compute Against Cancer project | TechJournal South | January 21, 2009 |
| Perspectives on advancements in distributed computing | International Science Grid This Week | January 21, 2009 |
| Hardcore gaming enthusiasts in bio project; an ovewrview of Folding@home's success with the Sony PlayStation 3 architecture | The Hindu | January 18, 2009 |
| INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY: Astronomy Hits the Big Time; (subscription required); Galaxy Zoo is making important new contributions to astronomy | Science Magazine | January 16, 2009 |
| A galaxy of helpful people: 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 | The Guardian | January 15, 2009 |
| Help Mankind by Folding@Home; a short overview of Folding@home | Prasys' Blog | January 11, 2009 |
| Celle solari più efficienti e meno costose anche grazie al tuo PC! (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. | Data Manager | January 9, 2009 |
| La inteligencia colectiva se pone al servicio de la ciencia a través de Internet (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. | El País | January 8, 2009 |
| Nvidia CUDA acelera la investigación científica (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. | Diario Tecnologías de la Información | January 7, 2009 |
| Divide and conquer: distributed graphics rendering; 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 | International Science Grid this Week | January 7, 2009 |
| The Universe Today Top 10 Scientific Endeavours of 2008; Galaxy Zoo was voted one of Universe Today's top 10 scientific research projects of 2008 | Universe Today | January 2, 2009 |
| 2008 | ||
| SSL broken! Hackers create rogue CA certificate using MD5 collisions; "using a cluster of 200 PS3 game consoles and about US$700 in test digital certificates, a group of hackers in the U.S. and Europe have found a way to target a known weakness in the MD5 algorithm to create a rogue Certification Authority (CA), a breakthrough that allows the forging of certificates that are fully trusted by all modern Web browsers" | ZDNet Blogs | December 30, 2008 |
| Scientists Probe For Otherworldly Life; an overview of SETI and SETI@home | The Mountain Mail | December 25, 2008 |
| D-Wave Arms ‘Smoking Gun’ Proof of Quantum Computer; an overview of AQUA@home | The New York Times Bits Blogs | December 22, 2008 |
| NVIDIA CUDA Technology Dramatically Advances The Pace Of Scientific Research; new version 6.4.5 of BOINC can use NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA technology to perform some kinds of distributed computing research 2 to 20 times faster | NVIDIA | December 17, 2008 |
| Distributed security cracking: Will the future of security cracking lie in 'cloud computing'? | TechRepublic.com | December 16, 2008 |
| IBM and Volunteers Using Computers to Cultivate Better Rice Crops: an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project | Finding Dulcinea | December 16, 2008 |
| Emissions: Where do you draw the line?: are the potential energy-saving results from The Clean Energy Project worth the amount of energy used by computers participating in the project? | The Guardian | December 16, 2008 |
| IBM rice project works on new strains; an overview of World Community Grid's Nutritious Rice for the World project | TradeArabia | December 13, 2008 |
| World Community Grid burns energy in order to save it; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | The Inquirer | December 11, 2008 |
| Please Help! Use Your Computer to Solve World Problems; a short overview of World Community Grid | Gather | December 10, 2008 |
| We will find aliens 'by 2025'; SETI@home should help us find alien radio signals sooner | Independent.ie | December 10, 2008 |
| IBM, Harvard want your PC for solar power study; an overview of the new The Clean Energy Project | The Guardian | December 8, 2008 |
| IBM, Harvard Use Distributed Computing to Make Ultra-Powerful Solar Cells; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | Clean Technica | December 8, 2008 |
| IBM, Harvard Solar Research Hits the Clouds; an overview of The Clean Energy Project | DailyTech | December 8, 2008 |
| University of Washington biochemist David Baker to receive 2008 Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for discoveries in protein folding | 7th Space Interactive | November 27, 2008 |
| Fight AIDS at home, via unused computer time; on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2008, the World Community Grid is sponsoring a month-long challenge to provide more computing resources to AIDS researchers via FightAIDS@home | International Science Grid this Week | November 26, 2008 |
| Virtual Telescopes Tweaked; an overview of Internet-based virtual telescopes and distributed computing projects related to Astronomy | MSNBC Cosmic Log | November 11, 2008 |
| How curing boredom can boost research; a short overview of distributed human projects | New Scientist | November 5, 2008 |
| The Energy Impact of Grid Computing (registration required to view article) | EE Times-Asia | November 4, 2008 |
| Quake Catcher uses 1,500 laptops for cheap seismic detection; a short overview of the Quake Catcher Network | DVICE | October 27, 2008 |
| Play game to fight AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's; an overview of Foldit | CNet News | October 24, 2008 |
| Catching quakes with laptops; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | International Science Grid this Week | October 22, 2008 |
| ET may be out there, but would he talk to us?; an overview of the search for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence and SETI@home | Times Online | October 21, 2008 |
| Reaching for the Exa-scale, by BOINC-ing; using BOINC and Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) we will reach the 1 ExaFLOPS (1,000 PetaFLOPS) computing milestone soon | International Science Grid this Week | October 15, 2008 |
| Volunteer computing helps track malaria; an overview of malariacontrol.net and its first published results | International Science Grid this Week | October 15, 2008 |
| CERN starts the Peta-Grid; CERN officially started the World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) on Friday, October 3, 2008 | heise online UK | October 6, 2008 |
| Laptop device catches notice of seismologists in hunt for earthquake data; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | The Press-Enterprise | October 5, 2008 |
| World's biggest computing grid launched; an overview of CERN's World LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which was officially started on October 3, 2008 | PHYSORG.com | October 3, 2008 |
| Supercomputers Fight Thromboses; Russian scientists used distributed computing to test 6,000 potential drug molecules over 18 months and found potential molecules which "may become the basis for new effective therapy against thromboses [blood clots] and components for blood substitutes" | Russia-InfoCenter | October 3, 2008 |
| Txteagle pays mobile phone users for short tasks ; upcoming for-pay distributed human project txteagle will pay mobile phone users in developing countries to perform short tasks such as sending text messages or translating words | Salon.com | October 2, 2008 |
| No excuse for under-utilization: Clemson back-fills with BOINC; Clemson University's School of Computing is contributing its spare computing power to the World Community Grid through BOINC | International Science Grid This Week | October 1, 2008 |
| UCLA finds first Mersenne Prime over 10 million digits; an overview of Edson Smith's discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digits using UCLA's computers | International Science Grid This Week | October 1, 2008 |
| 13 Million-Digit Prime Number Shows Benefits of Distributed Computing Projects; an overview of GIMPS' discovery of the first known Mersenne prime over 10 million digits | finding Dulcinea | October 1, 2008 |
| What can you do with a 12-million-digit prime number?; the point of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s challenge to find a large Mersenne prime number is not just to find a large number but to prove that a "big real-world problem can benefit from everyday people volunteering their computers for a distributed-computing project" | Christian Science Monitor | September 30, 2008 |
| Quake Catcher Network: SETI@home Spinoff Tracks Earth-Shakers; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | The Planetary Society | September 28, 2008 |
| Shake it all about: How to use your laptop to locate an earthquake; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network | Economist | September 25, 2008 |
| Grids meet aliens and androids; the 4th annual Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop, which met in Grenoble, France, on September 11-12, discussed the future of BOINC and new directions for volunteer computing including new Distributed Thinking platforms like Bossa and BOLT | International Science Grid This Week | September 24, 2008 |
| Big prime nets big profit; an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveries | Nature | September 19, 2008 |
| Life starts now; Sony has launched a "Life with Playstation" service on the PlayStation3 console. The service provides "worldwide news, weather and other information," and "a more advanced simulation of protein folding for Folding@home." | Sydney Morning Herald Blogs | September 19, 2008 |
| Sony launches Life with PlayStation; an overview of Sony's new Life with Playstation service for Playstation3 | GameSpot News | September 18, 2008 |
| Two largest known prime numbers discovered just two weeks apart, one qualifies for $100k prize; an overview of GIMPS' recent prime discoveries | WikiNews | September 18, 2008 |
| Big and bigger: New prime numbers claim top two spots; GIMPS discovered its 45th and 46th known Mersenne prime numbers on August 23, 2008 and September 6, 2008. These are the largest Mersenne primes known. The first number has almost 13 million digits and the second has 11.2 million digits. | Scientific American | September 16, 2008 |
| The Collider and the Grid: Distributed computing made LHC possible | ZDNet Government | September 10, 2008 |
| Your idle computer can save the world; an overview of World Community Grid | The McGill Daily | September 8, 2008 |
| How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web: The LHC Computing Grid may teach the Internet how to quietly handle reams of information | Scientific American | September 4, 2008 |
| NYU, American Museum of Natural History receive $1.6 million NSF grant; New York University and the American Museum of Natural History have received a grant to study "plant evolution and to create a public database that provides information about the structure and inferred function of proteins found in two plant genomes." They will create a project for World Community Grid. | EurekAlert! | September 3, 2008 |
| Join the crowd: Why do multinationals use amateurs to solve scientific and technical problems?; an overview of crowdsourcing | The Independent | September 2, 2008 |
| Mega Grid for Mega Science; an overview of grid computing and the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) | R and D Magazine | August 29, 2008 |
| Astropulse: A Fresh Look at the Skies in Search of E.T.; an overview of SETI@home's new Astropulse project | The Planetary Society | August 27, 2008 |
| Build a Better Quake Catcher; an overview of Quake Catcher Network | Popular Science | August 21, 2008 |
| Humans can; computers can't; an overview of reCAPTCHA and some other Distributed Human projects which use human games to do useful work that computers can't do | The News and Observer | August 20, 2008 |
| If You Use the Web, You May Have Already Been Enlisted as a Human Scanner; an overview of reCAPTCHA | Scientific American | August 19, 2008 |
| 51-card NVIDIA folding rig can crank out 265,200 points per day; a 51-card NVIDIA-based computing rig built by nitteo of the overclock.net forums will generate an estimated 265,200 folding points per day for Folding@home | Engadget | August 13, 2008 |
| Link of the Week - LHC at home; an overview of LHC@home | International Science Grid this Week | August 13, 2008 |
| The Future of Cloud Computing - An Army of Monkeys?; how cloud computing differs from distributed and grid computing | Sys-Con Media | August 13, 2008 |
| Hadoop: When grownups do open source; an overview of the Hadoop open-source library for writing distributed data processing programs using the MapReduce framework | The Register | August 11, 2008 |
| IBM grant to help UTMB’s global computing project discover dengue drugs: IBM has awarded the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston a grant to install a high-performance IBM storage system to assist its global computing effort [run on IBM's Global Computing Grid] to find drugs for reemerging infectious diseases like dengue, West Nile and hepatitis C. | Blocks and Files | July 31, 2008 |
| Could ‘Crowd-Sourcing’ be the next big thing? | Mybroadband.co.za Blogs | July 29, 2008 |
| NVIDIA Dramatically Acclerates the Search for a Cure; an overview of NVIDIA's support for Folding@home's new GPU client | WebWire | July 28, 2008 |
| SETI@Home Adds New Search Method; an overview of SETI@home's Astropulse project | Slashdot | July 27, 2008 |
| Recherche: un logiciel pour modéliser les prairies!; an overview of Virtual Prairie. The article is written in French. | Lyon-Nature.fr | July 25, 2008 |
| Cure Diseases and Have Fun Competing at the Same Time; an overview of Folding@home | Science Blogs | July 16, 2008 |
| Playing the Science Game; an overview of Foldit | Chronicle.com | July 4, 2008 |
| Beyond Graphics--The Present and Future of GP-GPU; Folding@home's new GPU client is an average of four times faster than the PS3 client and 40 times faster than the PC client | ExtremeTech | July 2, 2008 |
| The brains behind the operation: How do you top the invention of the world wide web? Bobbie Johnson introduces Cern's plan for the next leap forward in computer technology: the grid; an overview of distributed and grid computing | The Guardian | June 30, 2008 |
| Using Personal Computers to Solve Humanitarian Problems; an overview of World Community Grid | Voice of America News | June 29, 2008 |
| An armchair astronomer discovers something very odd; an overview of Galaxy Zoo's recent discovery | The Economist | June 26, 2008 |
| Why the cloud cannot obscure the scientific method; a rebuttal to the "The End of Theory" article | Ars Technica News | June 25, 2008 |
| Screensavers help University cancer research; an overview of Cels@Home | The Daily Texan Online | June 25, 2008 |
| The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete; in The Petabyte Age we can use massive amounts of data and processing, instead of scientific theories, to study the world around us | Wired Magazine | June 24, 2008 |
| Grid computing boosts cancer research; an overview and update of Cels@Home | TG Daily | June 24, 2008 |
| Galaxy Zoo's blue mystery (part I); astronomers around the world are taking interest in the Voorwerp object discovered by a Galaxy Zoo participant | Science News | June 19, 2008 |
| Stanford releases folding client for Nvidia GPUs; Folding@home can now run on Nvidia GPUs (i.e. graphics cards) | Custom PC | June 18, 2008 |
| Scientists tap gaming's power: You, too, can help figure out proteins; an overview of Foldit | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | June 16, 2008 |
| Join the search while you sleep; a short overview of SETI@home | Arizona Daily Star | June 15, 2008 |
| Using Distributed Computing To Thwart Ransomware; Kaspersky Labs wants to create a new project to try to crack the Gpcode blackmail virus. This virus encrypts a user's files with a 1024-bit RSA key and tells the user to pay a blackmailer for the decryptor. Cracking the key would require the work of 15 million computers running for one year. | Slashdot | June 11, 2008 |
| SETI Researchers Gather At ASTRON For Search Beyond Beyond; another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI | Space Daily | June 11, 2008 |
| New Telescope to Hunt for Aliens; another overview of the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope and its possible contributions to SETI | SPACE.com | June 11, 2008 |
| LOFAR telescope used in search for extraterrestrial life?; the new LOFAR distributed radio telescope could be used for SETI | SpaceRef News | June 10, 2008 |
| IBM Brings Grid Computing to Food Crisis; an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World | Image and Data Manager | June 10, 2008 |
| Folding Proteins: Someone's Idea of Having Fun?; a short overview of Folding@home and Foldit | Praise Science Blog | June 9, 2008 |
| Video searching uses people power; the new They Work for You project asks volunteers to watch short video clips from Parliament sessions and to match them to official transcripts of the sessions, making the full videos of the sessions searchable | BBC News | June 3, 2008 |
| Computers crunch possible cures for cancer; computers in the student computer lab at Austin Community College are participating in the World Community Grid | KXAN | June 2, 2008 |
| DC.Ars: running the POEM@Home gauntlet; an overview of POEM@HOME and its participation in CASP8, and the DC.Ars team's participation in an informal contest for POEM@HOME during June, 2008 | ars technica | June 2, 2008 |
| IBM turns unused computers into grid to solve (some of) the world's problems; a good overview of the World Community Grid | Austin American-Statesman | May 29, 2008 |
| GTA4: Enabler of Life Sciences Research?; as more computer gamers buy PlayStation3 consoles to play Grand Theft Auto 4, more PS3s become available for use by distributed computing projects such as Folding@home | Bio-IT World | May 29, 2008 |
| Linux Nightlife Wants You to Come Out and Play; Fedora Nightlife is "a new project for creating a Fedora (Linux) community grid. People will be able to donate idle capacity from their own computers to an open, general-purpose Fedora-run grid for processing socially beneficial work and scientific research that requires access to large amounts of computing power." | DaniWeb | May 29, 2008 |
| First WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins, ready for beta; an overview of the new WikiProfessional project, WikiProteins | Ars Technica News | May 27, 2008 |
| IBM World Community Grid "Supercomputer" to Tackle Rice Crisis; an overview of the World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World | CNN | May 15, 2008 |
| Join the Hunt for Super-Rice; an overview of the new World Community Grid project Nutritious Rice for the World | New York Times | May 14, 2008 |
| Hello, Einstein residence? Why yes, he's home!; a short overview of Einstein@Home | International Science Grid this Week | May 14, 2008 |
| Volunteers asked to help find dead spacecraft on Mars; an overview of the new Looking For Mars Polar Lander project | NewScientistSpace | May 12, 2008 |
| Gaming for Medical Research; a short overview of Foldit | Technocrat | May 11, 2008 |
| Your computers may help save climate; an overview of climateprediction.net | The Jakarta Post | May 10, 2008 |
| I'm Donating My Unused Computer Processing Power to Science; a user's perspective of distributed computing projects | Tortoise Trail Blog | May 10, 2008 |
| Solve Puzzles for Science!; an overview of Foldit | AdPharm Blog | May 9, 2008 |
| Researchers Launch Online Protein Folding Game; an overview of the new Foldit protein folding game | Howard Hughes Medical Institute News | May 8, 2008 |
| 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 lab and all were effective. Now they are being tested in living cultures of the malaria parasite. | International Science Grid this Week | May 7, 2008 |
| Seismograph in your lap; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | Economic Times | May 4, 2008 |
| Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance; an overview of Gómez Performance Network Peer | TMCNet | May 2, 2008 |
| 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 | Interactions.org | April 24, 2008 |
| Turn off that power hungry computer! Or on second thought...; an overview of distributed computing projects | Eagle Connection Blog | April 22, 2008 |
| Folding@home GPU2 Client Examined; an overview and beta test of Folding@home's new "GPU2" client. This client supports all Radeon HD 2400 and above cards, up to the Radeon HD 3870 X2. | ExtremeTech | April 16, 2008 |
| First interstellar candidate extracted from Stardust interstellar tray (login required) | Stardust@Home | April 15, 2008 |
| Ad hoc encyclopaedia for the information age; the Diligent project is using grid computing to create Virtual Digital Libraries | ICT Results | April 14, 2008 |
| Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure; money and computing power cannot solve every problem | New York Times | April 14, 2008 |
| 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 | Business Standard | April 8, 2008 |
| Earthquake-predicting laptops could save lives; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | The Inquirer | April 2, 2008 |
| 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 | International Science Grid this Week | April 2, 2008 |
| Scientists Want Your MacBook for Earthquake Detection; an overview of the Quake Catcher Network project | Wired Magazine | March 31, 2008 |
| 'Mountains' on stars could trigger gravitational waves; asymmetrical neutron stars could produce gravitational waves detectable by the LIGO and Virgo observatories and Einstein@Home | New Scientist Space | March 31, 2008 |
| Yahoo Partners With Tata Sons On Cloud-Computing Research | InformationWeek | March 24, 2008 |
| Building Enzymes from Scratch; Rosetta@home was used to create two enzymes not found in nature | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | March 20, 2008 |
| Distributed computing and the Singularity; distributed computing will accelerate humanity's path toward the Singularity, "a hypothesized point in the future where unprecedented acceleration of technological progress will trigger colossal change," predicted by Ray Kurzweil | International Science Grid this Week | March 19, 2008 |
| How low can a Sudoku go?; an overview of the Sudoku project | International Science Grid this Week | March 12, 2008 |
| OpenSpimes: Turn your cell phone into a monitoring tool of your own local climate; "spimes," objects which record where and when they are and other data, could be used in distributed computing networks to build maps of carbon dioxide levels and other climate data | LunchoverIP | March 8, 2008 |
| Project BudBurst wants you to track nature's changes for database; Project Budburst, a "citizen science" project which began in February, 2008, asks volunteers to record the dates at which various plant species bloom or bud in an effort to track climate changes possibly caused by global warming | Scramento Bee | March 8, 2008 |
| Volunteer Computing and the Search for Big Answers; an overview of BOINC and volunteer computing | Technology News | March 4, 2008 |
| Idle computers are kept busy scanning the skies; an overview of SETI@home and BOINC | News Letter | March 4, 2008 |
| SETI's Other Coup: We might not have yet found evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence, but SETI has more than proven its worth with its success in distributed computing | Popular Science | March 3, 2008 |
| Your computer can help science with BOINC; an overview of BOINC and distributed computing projects | Internetspotter.com | March 2, 2008 |
| Evolving towards the future of science: genetic algorithms and grid computing; genetic algorithms are being used to optimize the scheduling of computing jobs for computing grids | International Science Grid this Week | February 27, 2008 |
| Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG; a history of the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) | International Science Grid this Week | February 27, 2008 |
| Stardust@Home Team Extracts First Particle Track from Stardust Collector | The Planetary Society | February 16, 2008 |
| How much is your wired world costing you?; an experiment to see how much electricity a PlayStation3 uses when it performs work for a distributed computing project such as Folding@home | globeandmail.com | February 15, 2008 |
| Sony Announces 1 Million Folding@home Users; one million Sony PlaySation 3 owners have signed up for Folding@home | Gamasutra | February 4, 2008 |
| Sifting through image library will help cancer fight; IBM, the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers University are creating a project (an extension of the Help Defeat Cancer project) to use advanced computer and imaging technologies to compare cancerous tissues and cell and radiology studies to "make more accurate cancer prognoses, more personalized treatment planning and eventually to discover and develop new cancer drugs." | IBM | January 28, 2008 |
| Near Earth Objects: We Can't Beat the Odds Forever; thoughts about the risks to Earth from near-Earth objects, and news that orbit@home has been funded by NASA and active development of the project will begin next month | Michael Graham Richard | January 27, 2008 |
| The real antivirus programs; an overview of disease-fighting distributed computing projects such as D2OL | Thinggamajiggy Blog | January 27, 2008 |
| Opinion - Avalanche warning: the new challenges of the data grid; how (and for how long) can we store all of the data generated by distributed and grid computing projects? | International Science Grid this Week | January 23, 2008 |
| A Warm Welcome for Android; the GridGain project will turn Google Android platform-based cell phones into a computing grid | MSNBC | January 23, 2008 |
| Speaking of Science: The science of sleeping computers; an overview of distributed computing projects | The Daily of the University of Washington | January 17, 2008 |
| Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you!; seven new receivers installed on the Arecibo radio telescope will provide 500 times more data for SETI@home | EETimes | January 3, 2008 |
| Wikia Search Open For Developers On Monday: Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Calls For Transparency And Privacy In Engine; Wikia Search's open-source codebase was opened to external developers on January 7, 2008 | Best Syndication | January 3, 2008 |
| 2007 | ||
| Bit by bit, home computers aid science; an overview of distributed computing projects and of Cosmology@Home | Chicago Tribune | December 25, 2007 |
| GridRepublic performs at 700-plus teraflops; an overview and update of GridRepublic | International Science Grid this Week | December 19, 2007 |
| Wikipedia founder's Google rival to launch; an update of Wikia Search | NewScientistTech | December 15, 2007 |
| Yahoo: Open-Source Distributed Computing; Yahoo is launching an open-source program for developing software for distributed computing | Red Herring | December 12, 2007 |
| ParaMEDIC enables worldwide supercomputer for bioinformatics; ParaMEDIC, a general software-based framework for large-scale distributed computing, has sequence-searched all known microbial genomes against each other and has generated a complete genome sequence-similarity tree to greatly reduce the time needed for future searches | International Science Grid this Week | December 12, 2007 |
| Spreading the load: a new wave of science projects on the web is harnessing volunteers' computers in novel ways--and their brains, too; an overview and update of public distributred computing projects, BOINC, and the new platform for distributed human projects: BOSSA (Berkeley Open System for Skill Aggregation) | The Economist | December 6, 2007 |
| Head in the clouds? Welcome to the future; an overview of cloud computing | globeandmail.com | November 28, 2007 |
| Yahoo Debuts Open-Source Distributed Computing | BetaNews | November 12, 2007 |
| gPhone Idea: PowaPhone - distributed computing turns your cellphone into a supercomputer | CrunchGear | November 12, 2007 |
| Cancer-busters tap into grid computing: Canadian researchers have promised to squeeze "decades" of cancer research into just two years by harnessing the power of a global PC grid [World Community Grid] | iTnews | November 8, 2007 |
| World Community Grid to Aid Cancer Research: an overview of World Community Grid's new Help Conquer Cancer project | PC World | November 6, 2007 |
| Gamers Help Supercomputing Project Break World Record: About 200,000 PCs and gaming consoles helped give the Folding@home distributed network about one-quarter of a petaflop worth of computing power | InformationWeek | November 6, 2007 |
| Home Computers Help Researchers Better Understand Universe; an overview of Cosmology@Home | ScienceDaily | October 24, 2007 |
| Secure enough? Re-assessment of the world's most-used hash function; an overview of SHA-1 (Secure Hashing Algorithm 1) and the SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project's attempt to break it | International Science Grid this Week | October 24, 2007 |
| Scientists Race to Detect First Gravitational Waves; an overview and update of Einstein@Home | Wired | October 22, 2007 |
| Rosetta@home predicts 3D protein structure; an update of Rosetta@home | insideHPC | October 22, 2007 |
| Feed the Hungry, Improve Your Vocab; an overview of FreeRice | CyberNet | October 19, 2007 |
| LHC@home gets new home; an overview of LHC@home and its move from Switzerland to London | The Register | October 17, 2007 |
| Helping the world, one byte at a time; an overview of World Community Grid | News 8 Austin | October 16, 2007 |
| The shape of protein structures to come: Modelling effort uses mass computing power to make breakthrough; an update of Rosetta@home | Nature | October 16, 2007 |
| You too can do particle physics; an overview of LHC@home | NewScientistSpace | October 15, 2007 |
| Google And IBM Take Aim At Shortage Of Distributed Computing Skills: Capabilities will be in much greater demand as software as a service and massive data warehouses become more pervasive | InformationWeek | October 13, 2007 |
| From Aliens to Accelerators - @home project comes to the UK; an overview of LHC@home, now running in the UK, and some of its possible future applications | interactions.org | October 12, 2007 |
| Skies to be swept for alien life: The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life; the first 42 of a planned 350 radio telescopes in the Allen Telescope Array are active and gathering scientific data as of October 11, 2007 | BBC News | October 12, 2007 |
| It's Raining Cloud Computing!; Google and IBM have come together to popularize Internet-scale distributed computing in educational institutions | Techtree.com India | October 10, 2007 |
| World Community Grid migrates to BOINC; World Community Grid is migrating completely to the BOINC platform | International Science Grid this Week | October 3, 2007 |
| Spam weapon helps preserve books; Carnegie Mellon University has begun a distributed human project to digitize non-machine-readable text in books while preventing spam by using a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) | BBC News | October 2, 2007 |
| Folding@Home Protein Project Hits a Petaflop: Eighty percent of the power for the project comes from spare processor cycles on PlayStation 3 consoles | PC World | September 20, 2007 |
| IBM bids to find cure using computer grid; an overview of World Community Grid's Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project | Daily News and Analysis | September 18, 2007 |
| United Devices merges with Chicago company; United Devices has merged with Chicago-based Univa, "which develops related technology." The combined company is called Univa UD. | Austin American-Statesman | September 17, 2007 |
| Criminals' botnet more powerful than BlueGene?: Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence | ZDNet Australia | September 12, 2007 |
| ViroLab: a grid-based decision support system for HIV infections; ViroLab will allow European doctors to use the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE infrastructure computing grid to make better decisions in treating HIV infections | International Science Grid this Week | September 12, 2007 |
| Unfolding the secrets of disease; an overview of protein folding, distributed computing, and Folding@home | technicianonline | September 11, 2007 |
| Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk Joins the Hunt for Steve Fossett; Amazon Mechanical Turk has created a distributed human project to find Steve Fossett, whose plane disappeared on September 3, 2007 in Nevada | RealTechNews | September 9, 2007 |
| Wikipedia passes two million article mark | Wikinews | September 9, 2007 |
| UCT taps into IBM's climate change grid; Scientists at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa will use the World Community Grid "to study climate change [in South Africa] and devise agricultural strategies to cope with changing weather patterns" | myadsl.co.za news | September 7, 2007 |
| Grids: a global home for serious science; an overview of Human Proteome Folding's accomplishments and plans | International Science Grid this Week | September 5, 2007 |
| Grid computing to tackle climate change: IBM is to work with academics from the University of Cape Town to use grid computing to model climate change in Southern Africa; an overview of AfricanClimate@Home | ZDNet UK | September 6, 2007 |
| What we do; an update of Stardust@Home's Phase 2 | The Planetary Society | August 30, 2007 |
| Give time to develop artificial brain; an overview of the upcoming Artificial Intelligence System project | tectonic | August 27, 2007 |
| Distributed SHA-1 code-cracking effort launched; an overview of the new SHA-1 Collision Search Graz project | Wired Blogs | August 9, 2007 |
| An army of galaxy hunters; an overview and update of Galaxy Zoo | MSNBC Cosmic Log | August 9, 2007 |
| World Scouting Launches Partnership with World Community Grid; as part of its Centenary celebrations, World Scouting (i.e. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts, etc.), is encouraging scouts to join a new SCOUTS team participating in World Community Grid | Supercomputing Online | August 3, 2007 |
| Jimbo takes on Google; an overview of wikia's revival of the grub.org distributed web crawling indexer/search engine project | TIME | August 3, 2007 |
| Galaxy Zoo Wants You to Help Map the Cosmos | AppScout | July 20, 2007 |
| Online Help Sought for Galaxy Census; an overview of the new Galaxy Zoo project | Discovery News | July 12, 2007 |
| Searching for E.T. and the Cure for Cancer: The Planetary Society Helps Trigger a Computing Revolution | The Planetary Society | July 6, 2007 |
| The Internet Looks Like A...Jellyfish; Israeli researchers used a distributed computing project and 10,000 volunteers to build a map of the Internet | Digital Trends | June 28, 2007 |
| Welcome to the world's largest supercomputing grid: With 20PB of storage, and more than 280 TFLOPS of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the USA | Techworld.com | June 27, 2007 |
| For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU; human computation helps make computers smarter | Wired | June 25, 2007 |
| PlayStations at work: Owners of Sony's new PS3 are putting their consoles to work fighting real-life villains like Alzheimer's and cancer | Salt Lake Tribune | June 18, 2007 |
| PS3GRID: PS3 Used For Biomedical Research | PSX Extreme | June 15, 2007 |
| Brazilians go nuts for grid computing; Brazilians have developed an open-source peer-to-peer grid computing system called OurGrid, which allows members to freely donate and use spare compute cycles fo tasks such as simulating and managing reservoirs and water-distribution networks, plus weather and climate forecasting | The Register | June 7, 2007 |
| 'Push-button' climate modeling now available: A popular climate modeling tool used by scientists is now available as a service on the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid research computing network. This version of the Community Climate System Model uses a Web interface and is supported by the computing resources of the TeraGrid. | PHYSORG.com | June 5, 2007 |
| Arecibo Observatory may be nixed: A National Science Foundation panel has concluded that the Arecibo Observatory, used by SETI@home, will be reduced in operations and may even need to be shut down due to budgetary constraints. | ITWire | June 2, 2007 |
| The Evolution of United Devices (and Grid, In General); more information about why United Devices ended its grid.org project and how it is refocusing its business for new goals | GRIDtoday | May 7, 2007 |
| PS3 Signficantly Contributes to Folding@Home Project as Update is Released; 250,000 PS3 users have registered for the project in one month, and are delivering 400 teraflops of computing power, doubling the project's previous computing power. Version 1.1 of the PS3 client is available as of April 29, 2007. | GAMERSMARK | April 29, 2007 |
| PS3 a Hit for Stanford Grid Project | NEWSFACTOR.com | April 25, 2007 |
| Playstation 3s Help Cure Cancer, Contribute to Global Warming | The Arkansas Traveler | April 11, 2007 |
| Sony in talks on commercial use for PS3; Sony is studying ways to allow its PlayStation 3 customers to contribute their CPUs to commercial distributed computing projects. Users would be compensated in some way for their contributions. | Financial Times | April 10, 2007 |
| Computing yeast in three-dimensions: Protein structures for the entire yeast proteome; distributed computing was used to predict protein structures for 15,000 distinct "domains" of all proteins of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast to create three-dimensional structures for the yeast's entire proteome | innovations report | March 20, 2007 |
| PS3 upgrade gets a charitable boost: "Sony Computer Entertainment America has announced that the next update for its PlayStation 3 console software will be available on Thursday and will include support for the Folding@home distributed computing project from Stanford University." | ZDNet News | March 20, 2007 |
| Expert predicts rise of virtual science; game designer Jane McGonigal of the Institute for the Future wants to create "massively multi-citizen science, taking the idea of massively multi-player gaming where you get tens of thousands, or millions of people committed to exploring a virtual world together [and applying] that to exploring the real world together and exploring the scientific data of the real world together." | Earth & Sky | March 19, 2007 |
| PS3 to Cure Disease: Link up your console to unravel protein structures and fight illnesses; in late March, 2007, Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) owners will be able to download a firmware update to install a Folding@home icon on their XrossMediaBar (XMB). They can click the icon to run a Folding@home software client on their PS3 and participate in the Folding@home project. | IGN.com | March 15, 2007 |
| Donations to grid are accelerating medical research: Researchers using idle processors to develop treatments for cancer, HI; an overview of World Community Grid and its recent results | IGN.com | March 13, 2007 |
| Computers Cure Cancer While Idle Through Global Uber-Network; an overview of World Community Grid and of York Univeristy, the first Canadian university to join the World Community Grid | All Headline News | March 1, 2007 |
| Seeking Security in Grid Computing; a discussion about security in distributed computing projects | The New York Times | February 22, 2007 |
| Missing laptop found in ET hunt; SETI@home hasn't found any alien radio signals yet, but it helped find a project participant's stolen laptop | Daytona Beach News-Journal Online | February 21, 2007 |
| Grid computes 420 years worth of data in four months: Grid computing project analyses possible malaria cures faster than ever before | Computerworld | February 16, 2007 |
| MacResearch.org Introduces OpenMacGrid; an overview of OpenMacGrid, a new open-research computing grid for Mac OSX-based systems | GRIDtoday | February 12, 2007 |
| Myriad computers around the world join to solve problems piece by piece; an overview of World Community Grid | Arizona Daily Star | February 6, 2007 |
| Online astronomers seek out new worlds: an overview of distributed and collaborative online astronomy projects such as SETI@home, Stardust@Home and systemic | Miami Herald | January 14, 2007 |
| CERN Confident of LHC Start-up in 2007: an update on the status of the Large Hadron Collider project and the computing grid which will process its data | GRIDtoday | January 8, 2007 |
| Chicago-Indiana Network to Handle Massive Data Flow: an overview of the distributed computing system and network which will soon handle live data from the Large Hadron Collider and the Open Science Grid (and a network between Chicago and Indiana which will be a part of it) | HPC wire | January 5, 2007 |
| Grid computing gaining acceptance: Increased power of home units helps | Chicago Tribune | January 2, 2007 |
| 2006 | ||
| Turn off game shows, help listen for E.T.; a short overview of SETI@home | The Grand Rapids Press | December 4, 2006 |
| And we thought Sega Genesis was cool; a short overview of how Sony's Playstation 3 will be used for distributed computing | The Minnesota Daily | December 1, 2006 |
| PlayStation 3 could aid cancer research | The Badger Herald | November 28, 2006 |
| Sony PlayStation 3 to Research Medical Maladies; a short overview of the upcoming Cure@PLAYSTATION 3 project | CEPro News | November 27, 2006 |
| Genome Comparison Project Launched on World Community Grid; an overview of World Community Grid's new Genome Comparison project | GRIDtoday | November 21, 2006 |
| OSG Director Reports on Grid Progress; an updated overview of the Open Science Grid | GRIDtoday | November 13, 2006 |
| Computer saves the world--and you get the credit; a simple overview of distributed computing projects | Chicago Sun-Times | November 12, 2006 |
| We Want You! (PDF); an overview of distributed computing and several of the major public distributed computing projects | Digit | November, 2006 |
| Looking for company beyond the skies; an overview and history of SETI and SETI@home, and thoughts on how the discovery of alien intelligence would affect religion | National Catholic Reporter | October 20, 2006 |
| Impressive GPU Numbers From Folding@Home; "The Folding@home project has put forth some impressive performance numbers with the GPU client that's designed to work with the ATI X1900. According to the client statistics, there are 448 registered GPUs that produce 29 TFLOPS. Those 448 GPUs outperform the combined 25,050 CPUs registered by the Linux and Mac OS clients." | Slashdot | October 13, 2006 |
| 100,000 PCs Involved In Climate Predicting Experiment; an overview of climateprediction.net | CCNews | October 8, 2006 |
| ATI: Power of forty CPUs in one GPU; ATI's new graphics card which support "stream computing" will provide a 40-fold increase in computing power for projects such as Folding@home | APC Magazine | October 2, 2006 |
| The GPU Advances: ATI's Stream Processing and Folding@Home | AnandTech | September 30, 2006 |
| Grids Opening the Door to Open Science; the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy's Office of Science are funding a five-year, $30 million program to operate and expand the two-year-old national Open Science Grid | DDJ's Portal Blog | September 26, 2006 |
| PlayStation's serious side: Fightin disease; an overview of Folding@home's software client for Sony's new PlayStation 3 | CNN | September 18, 2006 |
| People have the power, again; an overview of the NASA Clickworkers distributed human project, which ran from 2000-2001, and which will begin again soon, to analyze images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter | GCN Insider | September 11, 2006 |
| Multiplication power: Linked computers tapped by researchers; an overview of the current state of distributed and grid computing | The Mercury News | September 9, 2006 |
| Size matters, but quantity can be best way to supercomputing; an overview of Stardust@Home and of distributed computing projects | USATODAY | August 31, 2006 |
| Folding@home embraces Playstation 3; Folding@home will create a software client for Sony's new PlayStation 3 | The Inquirer | August 24, 2006 |
| With Multi-Beam Receiver, SETI@home Takes Giant Step Forward; a detailed overview of how SETI@home will use a new seven-pronged multi-beam data recorder at the Arecibo telescope to perform more complete and more sensitive surveys of the sky | The Planetary Society | August 14, 2006 |
| PC users come to aid of scientists: Amateurs combine their power to help pros on big projects; an overview of Stardust@Home | Baltimore Sun | August 10, 2006 |
| You can join hunt for space particles; an overview of Stardust@Home | Sacramento Bee | August 9, 2006 |
| Malaria Battlers Enlist Power of Your PC; an overview of malariacontrol.net | National Geographic News | August 8, 2006 |
| The Stardust Hunt is On; an overview of Stardust@Home | MSNBC Cosmic Log | August 1, 2006 |
| Interstellar space dust hunted from home; an overview of Stardust@Home | New Scientist SPACE | August 1, 2006 |
| Fighting Malaria in Africa From Your Home Computer; an overview of malariacontrol.net | VOA News | July 23, 2006 |
| IBM's World Community Grid Powers 'Help Defeat Cancer' Project; an overview of World Community Grid's new cancer-fighting project | IT News Online | July 20, 2006 |
| IBM Researchers Wield Grid Power In Cancer Battle: It's the third health-related project for the charity community program, which allows anyone with a computer to donate idle processing power and time | Information Week | July 20, 2006 |
| Wanted: computers for a humanitarian cause: Spare computing power tackles thorny questions in malaria; a detailed overview of malariacontrol.net | news @ nature.com | July 20, 2006 |
| An amazing free screensaver; an overview of electric sheep | APC Magazine | July 17, 2006 |
| Awash in a Sea of Volunteer Applications; are there too many distributed computing projects to choose from? | GRIDtoday | July 17, 2006 |
| On the Pulse of Grid Computing; how grid computing on TeraGrid machines at NCSA has been used to simulate bloodflow through "every artery in the human body larger than about two to three millimeters in diameter." No project before this has attempted to simulate more than 2 arteries at one time. | GRIDtoday | July 17, 2006 |
| Help the World From Home; an overview of distributed computing projects | Cayman Net News | July 17, 2006 |
| Searching for aliens; an overview of SETI, and how SETI@home is helping it | The New Zealand Herald | July 1, 2006 |
| NYU Scientists Begin Second Phase Of Project To Better Understand Disease; another overview of the second phase of the World Community Grid project which is looking for cancer biomarkers | Medical News TODAY | June 29, 2006 |
| World Grid used to study protein folding: A team of U.S. scientists is using IBM's World Community Grid to be able to predict the structures of key proteins; an overview of how the World Community Grid is being used to find cancer biomarkers | PHYSORG.com | June 27, 2006 |
| The Rise of Crowdsourcing; an overview of distributed labor networks, which use the Internet to access "the spare processing power of millions of human brains" | Wired | June, 2006 |
| Worldwide, 690,000 help computer effort; a short overview of the BOINC platform and some of the most popular projects using it | The Seattle Times | May 30, 2006 |
| JavaScript Web Application Does High Science; a short overview of how Stardust@Home uses a web-based application written in JavaScript and HTML | JavaScriptSearch News | May 30, 2006 |
| UW biomedical researcher taps home computers for oomph; an overview of David Baker and his project, Rosetta@home | The Seattle Times | May 30, 2006 |
| Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home; an in-depth interview of Andrew Westphal, the director of Stardust@Home. Wikinews interviewed him for May [2006]'s Interview of the Month (IOTM) on May 18, 2006 | Wikinews | May 28, 2006 |
| Let your PC find a cure or predict storms; a short overview of the BOINC platform and some of the current projects using it | The ChronicleHerald.ca | May 21, 2006 |
| Volunteer Computer Grids--Beyond SETI@home; a detailed overview of distributed and grid computing, plus histories, descriptions and results for many public distributed computing projects | ExtremeTech | May 16, 2006 |
| Cooperative computing: the fellowship of the Grid; how cooperative computing is "taking the Internet to its next level" | AGORAVOX | May 9, 2006 |
| Open Source Bioinformatics; how open-source projects like Rosetta@home are advancing bioinformatics research | Genomics and Proteomics | May 9, 2006 |
| Avian Flu vs. The Grid; an update on D2OL and various grid projects' efforts to discover drugs to fight the H5N1 strain of avian flu | GRIDtoday | May 8, 2006 |
| Investment Banks Making Progress with Grid Deployments | GRIDtoday | May 1, 2006 |
| Making the Impossible, Possible: The Impact of Grid Computing in Telecommunications | xchange | May 1, 2006 |
| Grid 2.0: The Global Grid Gets Hip | GRIDtoday | April 24, 2006 |
| Patel: While your computer wastes time it could be predicting the weather; an overview of climateprediction.net | ASU Web Devil | April 20, 2006 |
| Seti@home project asking for donations; SETI@home may have to end if the project cannot raise US$750,000 in donations before the end of the year | Computeract!ve | April 20, 2006 |
| Project targets avian influenza: Distributed computing fighting bird flu; an overview of D2OL's Avian Influenza project | PC Advisor News | April 17, 2006 |
| New Target in the War on Cancer Ready to Download to Your Computer; an overview of Community TSC's new Phase II research | The Rothberg Institute | April 13, 2006 |
| Next cancer breakthrough from your home PC?: Rosetta@home project seeks to harness computers for medical research | MSNBC.com | April 6, 2006 |
| Searching for the next Google; an overview of Majestic-12 | Contractor UK | March 29, 2006 |
| If distributed processing can search for aliens, why not web pages?; an overview of Majestic-12 | Guardian Unlimited Technology | March 23, 2006 |
| PC Collective Cracks 2nd Enigma U-boat Message; an overview of M4's second successful message decryption | TechWeb | March 16, 2006 |
| Enigma project cracks second code: Online codebreaking enthusiasts working to solve a series of German World War II ciphers have cracked the second of three codes | BBC News | March 15, 2006 |
| The BBC wants your Personal Computer: Weather with thou or against thee; a short overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | The Inquirer | March 14, 2006 |
| Distributed computing cracks Enigma code; an overview of M4 | CNET News | February 27, 2006 |
| SEC shuts down $50 mln Internet Ponzi scheme; 12dailypro.com, which was similar to many "click for charity" and "click for cash" websites, was discovered to be a Ponzi or pyramid scheme, and was shut down | Yahoo! News | February 27, 2006 |
| Oxford seeks PC users to help map climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | Yahoo! News | February 14, 2006 |
| Climate Change Model Harnesses Home Computers: The BBC, Britain's Meteorological Office, Oxford University, and the University of California at Berkeley on Tuesday launched a program, and software, to mobilize idle time of home computers to better predict climate change; a short overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | InformationWeek | February 14, 2006 |
| BBC wants your clock-cycles - to predict climate change; an overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment and the BBC television programs associated with it, and a user's guide to the client software applicaton | HEXUS.lifestyle | February 14, 2006 |
| BBC links to huge climate project: The BBC is inviting viewers to join the world's biggest online climate prediction project; the BBC's overview of the BBC Climate Change Experiment | BBC News | February 14, 2006 |
| Computer downtime rising up to work on world's problems; an overview of the World Community Grid | TMCnet | February 10, 2006 |
| Networking computers to help combat disease; how grid computing is being used to find disease-fighting drugs | IST Results | January 23, 2006 |
| Public Tapped to Hunt for Stardust; an overview of Stardust@Home | Discovery Channel | January 12, 2006 |
| Stardust@Home: Help Find the Elusive Particles from Distant Suns!; an overview of Stardust@Home | The Planetary Society - News | January 11, 2006 |
| Public to look for dust grains in Stardust detectors; an overview of Stardust@Home | UC Berkeley News | January 10, 2006 |
| Stardust@Home: Searching for Cosmic Needles in a Haystack; an overview of Stardust@Home | The Planetary Society - News | January 10, 2006 |
| 2005 | ||
| Alien search merges with other home projects: SETI@home is getting a boost in computer power; an overview of SETI@home's migration to BOINC | Nature | December 15, 2005 |
| IBM's World Grid Draws Members, Fights AIDS; an overview of the World Community Grid and its new participation in fightAIDS@home | InformationWeek | December 2, 2005 |
| SETI's Next Generation Telescope Array; an overview of SETI and its next-generation receiver, the Allen Telescope Array | OhmyNews | December 1, 2005 |
| Have an 'Ear' to the Sky With SETI@Home; an overview of SETI@home | OhmyNews | November 25, 2005 |
| ET could hack internet: Aliens could hack the internet and spread viruses if proper precautions are not put in place, warned a top scientist | SC Magazine UK | November 25, 2005 |
| Distributed Computing Project Discovers New Knowledge About Earthquakes; private distributed computing project Discovery Net's earthquake research project allowed geophysicists to combine two different methods of studying earthquakes and discover new knowledge which could not have been discovered using only one of the methods | ScienceDaily | November 24, 2005 |
| World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe; an overview of the Large Hadron Collider project and the grid computing efforts which will support it | silicon.com | November 24, 2005 |
| Power of Idling Personal Computers Sought in AIDS Fight; an overview of fightAIDS@home and the World Community Grid | Top Tech News | November 23, 2005 |
| Grid to take on AIDS: IBM has launched a new research initiative to use grid technology for AIDS research; fightAIDS@home has joined the World Community Grid | CNET News | November 21, 2005 |
| Supercomputer Fights AIDS: The virtual supercomputer will test thousands of human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) mutations against tens of thousands of chemical compounds | Information Week | November 21, 2005 |
| PCs Get with the AIDS Program | Business Week | November 21, 2005 |
| RSA-640 Factored | MathWorld News | November 8, 2005 |
| Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems; Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales "has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work" | The Register | October 18, 2005 |
| The greatest discovery of all time; the current state of searches for extraterrestrial radio signals, and speculation of what the discovery of those signals would mean to humanity | Telegraph | October 5, 2005 |
| Cracked: the puzzle of protein origami; a short overview of current progress in protein folding studies, and a mention of Rosetta@home | Telegraph | September 21, 2005 |
| Computers Make Big Strides in Predicting Protein Structure; the current state of computer-predicted protein-folding and a mention of the new Rosetta@home project | innovations report | September 16, 2005 |
| Searching For Gravity @ Home; an overview of Einstein@Home. | The Institute (IEEE) | September 6, 2005 |
| Gravitationswellen im Heimcomputer: Einstein@home; an overview of Einstein@Home. The article is written in German and is in PDF format. | Astronomie Heute | September 5, 2005 |
| Grid computing gets NSF grant boost; the U.S.'s National Science Foundation will award a US$150 million grant to expand TeraGrid computing, and Britain's Department of Trade and Industry will spend US$1.8 million to promote commercial grid computing | Washington Technology | August 25, 2005 |
| Sun plugs software into the grid; Sun Microsystems' IT department has begun running some enterprise resource planning applications on the Sun Grid, which will be available for customers to use starting in September, 2005 | CNET News | August 24, 2005 |
| IBM calls for more World Community Grid members | image and data Manager online | August 24, 2005 |
| ANALYSIS: A look at encryption, from then to now; an overview of encryption practices since the 1970s and how projects like distributed.net have accelerated the need for better encryption | ATM Marketplace | August 9, 2005 |
| Distributed Computing in the Modern Enterprise: Grids, SOAs, Web Services, and Beyond; an overview of the ways in which companies are using distributed computing | ACM Queue | August, 2005 |
| A Conversation with David Anderson: The director of SETI@home discusses his work and the volunteer computing movement | ACM Queue | August, 2005 |
| Distributing Science; an overview of the BOINC platform and some of the projects using it | Cornell University | July 25, 2005 |
| How Gamers Can Help Cure Cancer; a suggestion to add distributed computing clients to the upcoming Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 game consoles | Wired News | June 14, 2005 |
| Astronomers criticise plans to allow cellphone use on planes; cell phone use on airplanes could drown out the faint signals from space that radio astronomers and projects like SETI need for their research | New Scientist | June 9, 2005 |
| Modelling climate change: known unknowns; the chief scientist of climateprediction.net explains what climate change models can and can't tell people about planetary climate trends | openDemocracy | June 3, 2005 |
| Distributed computing for the masses; PlanetQuest hopes its "collaboratory" software will get students to become interested in the sciences | ZDNet UK | June 2, 2005 |
| Linux Powers Airborne Bots; a swarm of robotic helicopters with Linux servers will use distributed computing techniques to evaluate its surroundings | Wired News | June 1, 2005 |
| From PlanetQuest, software for stargazers; details about PlanetQuest's software client | CNet News | May 31, 2005 |
| Idle computers get busy screening drug targets for cancer (subscription required); an overview of a new project by the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) to find a cure for pancreatic cancer | news@Nature.com | May 26, 2005 |
| Association for Computing Machinery Joins World Community Grid: Grid Donates 10,000 Years of Run Time to Humanitarian Effort; the ACM "will encourage its 80,000 members worldwide to donate their idle computing time to World Community Grid" | AScribe Live Newswire | May 24, 2005 |
| Grid Computing Means Business; how grid computing will be used in business | ServerWatch | May 23, 2005 |
| Computer power of people needed; a short overview of Einstein@home | The Register-Guard | May 22, 2005 |
| A place of utmost gravity: The LIGO site in Washington is hoping to be first to prove Einstein theory; an overview of the LIGO observatory, for which Einstein@home is processing data | The Register-Guard | May 22, 2005 |
| Science's digital treasure hunt: Harnessing home computers to tackle tough questions; a short overview of some current @home projects | Lexington Herald-Leader | May 19, 2005 |
| Shared computing grid cuts data mountains down to size; an overview of the University of Wisconsin's Grid Laboratory of Wisconsin (GLOW) computing environment and how two UW professors are using it to study the human genome and the fundamental properties of matter | PhysOrg | May 10, 2005 |
| DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grassroots Supercomputing; a detailed overview of current distributed computing projects | Science magazine | May 6, 2005 |
| DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING: Grid Sport: Competitive Crunching; a look at competitive distributed computing project participants and "crunchers" | Science magazine | May 6, 2005 |
| IBM's World Grid Crunching Huge Problems; a short overview of the World Community Grid | KXAN TV, Austin, Texas | May 6, 2005 |
| University course is ahead of the curve; an overview of The University of Melbourne's new "master of engineering in distributed computing" program, created by Professor Rao Kotagiri and Dr. Rajkumar Buyya | The Age | May 3, 2005 |
| Consortium Seeks to Ease Grid Rollouts; new version 4 of the Globus Toolkit allows companies to deploy distributed computing environments more easily | Bio IT World | May 2, 2005 |
| Gitmo for Hard Drives: Experts in distributed computing could crack al-Qaeda's computer files the hard way; how distributed computing is helping computer forensics solve cases faster | Red Herring | May 1, 2005 |
| Processing for Science: "@Home" projects band together and proliferate; an overview of distributed computing and some current projects | Scientific American | May, 2005 |
| Apple Rolls Out Server Operating System Upgrade; Apple has included XGrid in version 10.4 of Mac OS X Server | InformationWeek | April 29, 2005 |
| CERN takes grid to a new dimension: Research lab hits 600MB/s between eight sites | Techworld | April 28, 2005 |
| Q and A: Grid in the financial industry; an overview of how the financial industry is using grid computing | Computerworld | April 26, 2005 |
| World Community Grid powered by 100,000 devices; in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has recruited 100,000 computers and completed over 6 million work units | Hudson Valley News | April 25, 2005 |
| Institute for Systems Biology Symposium Addresses Need for Better Computational Tools: World Community Grid Touted as Novel Approach to Untangling Complexities of Protein Function; in its first 6 months, World Community Grid has predicted 50,000 of the 100,000 to 150,000 protein structures it plans to predict | Business Wire | April 25, 2005 |
| At-home computing puts idle PCs to scientific use: Calculating capacity can help research on various projects; an overview of distributed computing and current projects | Detroit Free Press | April 22, 2005 |
| An Einstein theory still tantalizes: Scientists hope to prove existence of gravity waves; an overview of the search for evidence of gravity waves, and a mention of Einstein@home | Baltimore Sun | April 22, 2005 |
| World's Largest Computing Grid Surpasses 100 Sites; the Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG) now has more than 100 sites in 31 countries, with over 10,000 CPUs and almost 10 million Gigabytes of disk and tape storage, but this is still only 5% of the processing power the Large Hadron Collider will eventually need | New Scientist | March 14, 2005 |
| Thousands join hunt for gravitational waves; a short overview and update of Einstein@Home | New Scientist | March 14, 2005 |
| Now Open: Blue Gene On Demand; IBM is offering its Blue Gene supercomputer for computing on demand | internetnews.com | March 11, 2005 |
| Participant Total for Grassroots Astrophysics Project Einstein@Home to Exceed 55,000 On Einstein's Birthday | PhysOrg.com | March 11, 2005 |
| Wiki Becomes a Way of Life; an overview of the top contributors to Wikipedia | Wired News | March 8, 2005 |
| Not Sold on Cell, Yet; an opinion about what the next-generation Cell processor needs to do to succeed | eWeek | March 7, 2005 |
| Windows for clusters due in autumn; an overview of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2003 Compute Cluster Edition | silicon.com | March 4, 2005 |
| Planets Lurk on Your Desktop; an overview of the upcoming PlanetQuest project | Wired News | March 2, 2005 |
| Ending the Grid Lock; an overview of the Globus Consortium, "a non-profit organization aimed at turning more businesses onto grid computing" | Technology Review | March 2, 2005 |
| A sense of insecurity; an interview with Yiqun Lisa Yin, one of the Chinese researchers who broke the SHA-1 encryption algorithm | CNET News | March 2, 2005 |
| easyMobile.com Offers Spare Computer Processing Capacity to World Community Grid; after it builds computing capacity in the UK, easyMobile.com will offer all of its spare capacity to World Community Grid | ITnews | February 28, 2005 |
| Unleashing unused brain power; Songnian Zhou's company, Platform Computing, is "leading the way in grid computing" | Toronto Star | February 27, 2005 |
| 42nd Mersenne Prime Found | MathWorld | February 26, 2005 |
| 'Einstein@home,' Revolutionary Astrophysics Project, Targets Ordinary Computer Users -- Lots of Them; a short overview of Einstein@Home | Ascribe | February 22, 2005 |
| Interview: The Future in Grid Computing; an interview with Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke about the state of grid computing | BetaNews | February 21, 2005 |
| Revolutionary Grassroots Astrophysics Project "Einstein@Home" Goes Live; an overview of the Einstein@Home project | PhysOrg.com | February 19, 2005 |
| Catch a gravity wave: By installing a new screensaver, you can donate spare computer time to the search for gravity waves. | Astronomy News | February 19, 2005 |
| Software sifts through gravity's mysteries: Physicists kick off Einstein @ Home campaign | MSNBC | February 19, 2005 |
| Another Form of Encryption Goes Down for the Count: Standard that is key to virtually all secure online communications is broken; the SHA-1 encryption method, used in SSH, SSL, S/MIME, PGP, IPSec, VPN, and many other protocols, has been broken by three Shandong University researchers, using a distributed computing application | PCWorld | February 17, 2005 |
| PCs do thousands of years of work; an overview and update of the Human Proteome Folding project | BBC News | February 17, 2005 |
| Schools' computers help fight cancer; when they are not in use by students and faculty, Macintosh computers in some Kentucky public schools will be used in a Kentucky state grid for the University of Louisville's James Graham Brown Cancer Center project to look for new cancer therapies | Lexington Herald-Leader | February 17, 2005 |
| Google may host encyclopedia project; Google has offered to host some of Wikipedia's content | ZDNet UK | February 14, 2005 |
| Interview with DC climate project head Dr. David Stainforth | ars technica | February 13, 2005 |
| p2p and pulsars; an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project | p2pnet.net | February 5, 2005 |
| Sun plans to start auctioning capacity: Corporate clients could bid online at time of peak need; Sun Microsystems will partner with online stock market Archipelago Holdings, Inc. to create a market in which customers can bid for utility computing power | SFGate.com | February 3, 2005 |
| Distributed Parallel Computing with Web Services; how web services can be used with distributed parallel computing | Web Services Journal | February 2, 2005 |
| Sun offers processing by the hour; an overview of Sun Microsystems's new service, which offers grid computing for $1US per CPU per hour | BBC News | February 2, 2005 |
| The Protein Grid; an overview of the Human Proteome Folding project | Technology Review | February 1, 2005 |
| Home computers search for gravity waves: Physicists hope to exploit the downtime of a million machines; an overview of the upcoming Einstein@Home project | Nature | February 1, 2005 |
| Home PCs Predict Hotter Earth; Wired News's summary of climateprediction.net's recent results | Wired News | January 31, 2005 |
| Soaring global warming 'can't be ruled out'; some climate models generated by climateprediction.net predict a 11.5° C rise in Earth's temperature in 50 years | NewScientist | January 26, 2005 |
| Alarm at new climate warning: Global temperatures could rise by as much as eleven degrees Celsius, according to one of the largest climate prediction projects ever run. | BBC News | January 26, 2005 |
| New Consortium Promotes Grid Computing For Businesses; Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems and other companies have created the Globus Consortium "to develop and promote grid-computing software for businesses." | InformationWeek | January 24, 2005 |
| 'Rosetta' Software To Unlock Secrets Of Many Human Proteins; an overview of the Rosetta software used by the Human Proteome Folding project | Science Daily | January 22, 2005 |
| The Biggest Grid Yet; a short overview of World Community Grid | PC Magazine | January 18, 2005 |
| Grid gets down to business; companies are adopting commercial grid computing cautiously | TECHWORLD | January 10, 2005 |
| Supercomputing goes global; supercomputers are evolving into grid and distributed computers | Computerworld | January 10, 2005 |
| Why encyclopaedic row speaks volumes about the old guard; traditional encyclopaedists feel threatened by Wikipedia | The Observer | January 9, 2005 |
| Open-sourcing the news; Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales talks about Wikinews | CNET News | January 7, 2005 |
| Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder | Slashdot | January 3, 2005 |
| Larry Sanger's Knowledge Free-for-All; an interview with a co-creator founder of Wikipedia | Technology Review | January, 2005 |
| 2004 | ||
| A Peek Under Microsoft's Secret 'Bigtop'; a short overview of Microsoft's secret distributed computing initiative | eWeek | December 29, 2004 |
| Grid Computing 101; a short introduction to distributed and grid computing | eWeek | December 29, 2004 |
| How to Save the World by Doing Nothing; a short overview of World Community Grid | KRON 4 | December 22, 2004 |
| Anti spam bid canned: Lycos scraps anti-spam screensaver | vnunet.com | December 7, 2004 |
| Wikinews goes online | P2Pnet.net | December 5, 2004 |
| Lycos army shoots itself in foot?; one of the spam websites targeted by Lycos Europe's makelovenotspam.com project redirected traffic back to makelovenotspam, which could have shut down the site | ZDNet UK News | December 2, 2004 |
| Part of the Whole; an overview of distributed computing and some of the major projects | ComputorEdge | December, 2004 |
| Lycos launches screensaver to increase spammers' bills | Wikinews | November 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Creators Move Into News; the creators of the Wikipedia (a free, open-source encyclopedia) have created a similar project for journalism | Wired News | November 29, 2004 |
| Lycos screensaver to blitz spam servers; Lycos Europe's Make Love Not Spam project uses a screensaver for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) against known spam websites | The Register | November 26, 2004 |
| The DistComp Wattage Monitoring Project; a study of how much more electricity a computer uses to run a distributed computing project | Ready Response | November 25, 2004 |
| IBM's World Community Grid: A New SETI@home-Inspired Venture; an overview of World Community Grid, compared to BOINC | The Planetary Society | November 24, 2004 |
| Orion Puts a Cluster on Your Desktop; an overview of Orion's new 12-node and 96-node workstations | Workstation Planet | November 17, 2004 |
| Top Researchers Ask Web Users to Join Science Grid; an overview of IBM's new World Community Grid and its collaboration with grid.org | Yahoo! News | November 16, 2004 |
| Xbox Linux cluster; an experiment to create a Linux cluster from 8 Xboxes | engadget | November 12, 2004 |
| From Seeing to Understanding; how cluster computing is used to visualize and analyze the results of large computing projects | Science and Technology Review | November 11, 2004 |
| What's Next After the CPU?; how distributed computing is changing the role of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) in computing | ElectronicNews | October 22, 2004 |
| Getting A Grip On Grid Computing: More companies are farming out jobs to groups of networked computers | BusinessWeek | October 18, 2004 |
| The goods for grid: Broad IT knowledge, experience and an open mind are the keys to harnessing grid computing | Techworld | October 18, 2004 |
| State Employee Fired For Using State Property To Search For Aliens; an Ohio, U.S. state employee was fired for running SETI@home on a state-owned computer, even though the employee only ran it outside of business hours, when the computer was not being used | WCPO.com News (Cincinnati, Ohio) | October 8, 2004 |
| One grid to rule them all; an overview of the global computing grid being developed to process data from the Large Hadron Collider, starting in 2007 | Economist.com | October 7, 2004 |
| Building The Grid; an overview of current research in wireless/mobile computing grids | TheFeature | October 5, 2004 |
| Your PC Can Contribute With Google Compute | WebProNews | September 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits Million-Entry Mark | Slashdot | September 21, 2004 |
| Sun begins pay-as-you-go supercomputing; Sun Microsystems, Inc. will rent customers supercomputing power for US$1 per CPU per hour in its Secure N1 Grid program | TechRepublic | September 21, 2004 |
| World's Largest Working Computing Grid: This week, UK particle physicists will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid | PhysOrg.com | September 5, 2004 |
| Reports of SETI@home Extraterrestrial Signal Highly Exaggerated; SETI@home team members say the over-hyped possible alien signal is not an alien signal and that they are not studying it further | The Planetary Society | September 2, 2004 |
| Astronomers deny ET signal report | BBC News | September 2, 2004 |
| Mysterious signals from 1000 light years away; SETI@home may have discovered an interesting radio signal | NewScientist.com | September 1, 2004 |
| Is Encryption Doomed?: Our entire information society rests on a fragile foundation that mathematicians are racing to dismantle. | Technology Review | September 1, 2004 |
| Distributive computing spreads out: UC researchers tap idle PCs to tackle scientific mysteries; an overview of the BOINC platform | The Oakland Tribune | August 30, 2004 |
| Home Computers Aid Efforts To Develop New Medications, Stanford Researcher Reports; the Folding@home project is now producing results accurate enough to be useful to pharmaceutical companies | Science Daily | August 26, 2004 |
| Research reveals flaw in storage algorithm; an overview of the discovery of a flaw in the MD5 encryption algorithm, and its implications | ARNnet | August 25, 2004 |
| Scientists from Different Fields Line Up to Join the BOINC Family; a good overview of current and upcoming projects which (will) use the BOINC platform | The Planetary Society | August 24, 2004 |
| SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken; the MD5 encryption algorithm, for which the MD5CRK project was trying to find a collision, was broken by another group of researchers | Slashdot | August 16, 2004 |
| Chances of aliens finding Earth disappearing; Earth's radio signals will disappear within 100 years: alien civilizations are more likely to use lasers or some other signal besides radio | NewScientist.com | August 9, 2004 |
| Open Supercomputing Hits Big 1-0; the Beowulf Project is 10 years old | Wired News | August 6, 2004 |
| Multi-Beam Receiver Promises New Vistas for SETI Research; a new receiver at the Arecibo radio telescope will allow the telescope to receive signals from 7 points in the sky simultaneously, which will allow SETI research to study more of the sky more quickly and in a wider frequency band | The Planetary Society | August 4, 2004 |
| Do You See a Pattern Here?: An open letter to the wizards of Wall Street from Benoit Mandelbrot, father of the fractal; Mandelbrot suggests using distributed computing to search "for patterns in financial markets." | Wired News | August, 2004 |
| Sheep in Shining Armor: Let your PC join an army of several million others and save the world--while you sleep; a current overview of distributed computing projects, and of grid.org and Electric Sheep in particular | Discover Magazine | August, 2004 |
| NIST Proposes Abandoning DES | Slashdot | July 29, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Hits 300,000 Articles | Slashdot | July 7, 2004 |
| Public to help scientists predict the real climate of The Day After Tomorrow; will study the climate science behind the movie The Day After Tomorrow | climateprediction.net | June 22, 2004 |
| Mersenne.org Project Discovers New Largest Known Prime Number, 224,036,583 - 1: Project Leaders Believe $100,000 Award Within Reach | mersenne.org | May 28, 2004 |
| Mass Grid Computing Around the Corner?; a discussion about what is needed to encourage mass adoption of grid and distributed computing | Slashdot | May 18, 2004 |
| Pulses, Triplets, and Gaussians: Rescoring the Reobservations; an update on SETI@home's analysis of its 2003 reobserved candidate signals | The Planetary Society | May 17, 2004 |
| Grid watch: GGF and grid security; an overview of the Global Grid Forum's work on grid security | IBM | May 13, 2004 |
| Internet computing tackles Malaria; Find-a-Drug's new project to find an anti-Malaria drug | Find-a-Drug | May 10, 2004 |
| NETI to Examine Net's Strengths; an overview of the NETI@home project | Wired News | April 27, 2004 |
| Mathematicians From Around the World Collaborate to Solve Latest RSA Factoring Challenge | RSA Security | April 27, 2004 |
| Scientists develop sophisticated new simulation method for protein folding; Folding@home has successfully modeled the role of water molecules in protein folding for the first time | Stanford University | April 23, 2004 |
| Tapping the Matrix, Part 1; an excellent overview of distributed computing, and technical information about implementing it | O'Reilly openp2p.com | April 16, 2004 |
| Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles?; a short-term project is re-running a simulation of 29 billion photons in a room, which produced an image for SIGGRAPH 94; the new image should be cleaner and sharper because computers are 3,000 times more powerful than they were in 1994 | Slashdot | April 13, 2004 |
| Computing Power to the People; in-depth coverage of the results of the Flashmob I project | Wired News | April 5, 2004 |
| The God Particle and the Grid; an overview of CERN's upcoming grid project to look for the Higgs boson particle | Wired | April, 2004 |
| California Techies Try to Make Supercomputer; the results of the Flashmob I project | WJLA - ABC 7 News | April 3, 2004 |
| General Relativity @ Home!; news about the upcoming Einstein@Home project | SciScoop | April 1, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| In Search of Dyson Spheres; how SETI@home helped in the first search for Dyson Spheres | The Planetary Society | March 23, 2004 |
| Internet computing finds more cancer growth inhibitors: Find-a-Drug "has found more molecules which inhibit the growth of cancer cells" | Find-a-Drug | March 22, 2004 |
| Paul G. Allen Charitable Foundation Funds Next Phase in Construction of the World's Newest Radio Telescope Array | SETI Institute | March 18, 2004 |
| Hey, Gang, Let's Make Our Own Supercomputer; on April 3, 2004, students in Patrick Miller's do-it-yourself supercomputing graduate course will assemble the first "flash mob supercomputer" in the University of San Francisco gym | New York Times | February 23, 2004 |
| Michael Hart: changing the world through e-books; an overview of Michael Gutenberg and his project, Project Gutenberg | Edition Actu | February 15, 2004 |
| Chess - 2070 CPUs vs 1 GM; the results of ChessBrain's world-record attemp game | Slashdot | February 3, 2004 |
| Wikipedia Reaches 200,000 Articles | Slashdot | February 2, 2004 |
| Harnessing Distributed Computing Power using Open Source Tools; a white paper on using open-source tools to create distributed computing projects | ChessBrain.NET | February 1, 2004 |
| Do plants act like computers?; plants may regulate their "breathing" using a form of distributed computation | Nature | January 21, 2004 |
| The future of computing: The next big thing?; a comparison of utility and grid computing | The Economist | January 15, 2004 |
| Company gives equipment to SETI's grid computing project; Sun Microsystems donated hardware to the BOINC project to advance grid computing | Silicon Valley Biz Ink | January 2, 2004 |
| 2003 | ||
| The Interpretation of Dreams: An Explanation of the Electric Sheep Distributed Screen Saver | O'Reilly openp2p.com | December 22, 2003 |
| Software shares out spare processing power; an overview of the BOINC project, which will go live in January | New Scientist | December 21, 2003 |
| Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC; Sun Microsystems is donating computer servers to, and providing funding for, the BOINC project; also see Sun's press release | The Register | December 17, 2003 |
| RSA-576 Factored; this number was factored, but not by a public distributed computing project | MathWorld News | December 5, 2003 |
| Largest prime number ever is found; an overview of the GIMPS project's discovery of the 40th known Mersenne prime | New Scientist | December 3, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook | Slashdot | October 16, 2003 |
| The Cost of Distributed Client Computing?; a discussion of the costs (power consumption, hardware failure, etc.) of distributed computing for volunteers | Slashdot | October 15, 2003 |
| Casting a wider, deeper Net; an overview of the PlanetLab grid computing project | EE Times | October 13, 2003 |
| Huge computing power goes online; the private computing Grid which will process data from CERN's upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator project was just turned on | BBC News | September 30, 2003 |
| New and Improved SETI@home will Form the Backbone of Distributed Computing Network | The Planetary Society | September 25, 2003 |
| Huge Climate Experiment Starts Friday - All Welcome; an announcement of the September 12, 2003, start of the climateprediction.net project | Yahoo! News | September 11, 2003 |
| Getting More From a PC's Spare Time; an overview of distributed computing and particularly the BOINC platform | New York Times | September 11, 2003 |
| Circuit design evolving in distributed digital world; an overview of the Distributed Hardware Evolution Project | New Scientist | July 31, 2003 |
| SETI@home Update, July 18, 2003: Analyzing the Reobservations; an update on the processing of the reobserved candidate signals from SETI@home | The Planetary Society | July 18, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Coming Of Age: grid computing over the Internet is where the Internet was in 1994 | Slashdot | July 15, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing Economics; a study of the costs of grid and distributed computing | IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing Newsletter | July 12, 2003 |
| Project Gutenberg's 32nd Birthday | Slashdot | July 4, 2003 |
| How Practical Is Grid Computing?: Unless you are comfortable manipulating source code, not very.; grid computing from a CIO's perspective | CIO Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
| Find-A-Drug Attacks Aids With Grid Technology | GRIDtoday | July 1, 2003 |
| Donating CPU cycles for the greater good; an overview of distributed and grid computing (this article was one of a series on the top 20 trends in technology) | PC Magazine | July 1, 2003 |
| Internet computing finds cancer growth inhibitors; Find-a-Drug has found some potential cancer drugs | Find-a-Drug | June 30, 2003 |
| Japanese Test Grid Computing; a review of the Cell Computing project results | Australian IT | June 27, 2003 |
| PlanetLab 'Slices' Into Alternate Internet Universe: A consortium of universities and high-tech companies Tuesday formally launched a joint Internet-based test-bed platform for developing massive online services using distributed computing and overlay networks | internetnews.com | June 24, 2003 |
| Greetings from Tokyo: Notes from CCGrid 2003 | IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing Newsletter | June 1, 2003 |
| Supercomputing Made Simple: This summer new software will help researchers tap the unlimited power of idle PCs; a short summary of current popular projects, and a hint about BOINC | Popular Science | June, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing: Distributed Communities; an examination of distributed computing social groups, written by Howard Feldman of the Distributed Folding project | O'Reilly ONLamp.com | May 22, 2003 |
| Grid Computing Spreads to SARS; information about D2OL's SARS project | Wired News | April 30, 2003 |
| Launching Gutenberg Radio - Public Domain Audiobooks; a new project is converting Project Gutenberg e-texts to audio books | Slashdot | April 20, 2003 |
| Security Flaw Spotted, Fixed In Seti@home Program; a security hole was found in the SETI@home client. A patch is available to fix the hole. | InformationWeek | April 8, 2003 |
| SETI-Sicherheitslucke: Bin da, wer noch?; a German-language article about a security hole found in the SETI@home client. See the Babelfish English translation of the article. | Der Spiegel | April 7, 2003 |
| SETI@home Completes Stellar Countdown, Observing Bonus Radio Sources; data were collected from 166 sources and will be analyzed by SETI@home's network of volunteers | The Planetary Society | March 25, 2003 |
| LookSmart bets on distributed computing; LookSmart bought Grub to improve its web search results | CNET Tech News | March 21, 2003 |
| Group resumes Xbox cracking project | CNET Tech News | March 12, 2003 |
| Signals to be rechecked in alien hunt; on March 18, SETI@home will have dedicated time at the Arecibo radio telescope to recheck its most promising candidate signals | MSNBC News | March 10, 2003 |
| Global Grids Analyze on Demand Brain Activity | GRID Today | March 10, 2003 |
| 'Honest Thief' provides clever solution to music-swapping issue; 'Honest Thief' will lease the distributed computing power of its music file-swapping network to allow users to swap files legally and to compensate the musicians whose files are swapped | USA Today | March 7, 2003 |
| Chinese start-up readies 64-bit processor; BLX IC Design Corp., Ltd. is designing the 500-MHz Godson-2 CPU, based on the MIPS instruction set, to be "the engine of a distributed grid computing network that will be used by public and private firms" in China | EE Times | March 5, 2003 |
| Distributed Computing for Wireless Microphones; distributed computing was used to determine the optimal frequency allocation for wireless microphones. This URL is a babelfish translation of the original article written in German | ORF ON Futurezone | March 3, 2003 |
| The ChessBrain Project Announces the Creation of the World's First Computational Grid Devoted to Computer Chess | ChessBrain | March 1, 2003 |
| Guided Google: A Search Engine Built From Grid Labs | GRID Today | March, 2003 |
| PlayStation 2 taps into grid computing; Butterfly.net will use IBM'supercomputing technology for a grid computing game network for the Sony Playstation 2 | CNet Tech News | February 26, 2003 |
| Is There Demand for On-Demand Supercomputing? | Yahoo! News | February 21, 2003 |
| MusicBrainz Launches Open Source Music Recognition Service | MusicBrainz | February 11, 2003 |
| Donate the Power of Your PC to Fight Smallpox: The Department of Defense and IBM are using grid computing to search for a cure to the smallpox virus--and you can help. | PC World | February 5, 2003 |
| IBM, United Devices And Accelrys Aid U.S. Department of Defence in Search for Smallpox Cure: Smallpox Research Grid Project to link more than two million computers | United Devices | February 5, 2003 |
| Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?): The mechanics of a universal library are simple. The tricky part: harnessing the free labor. | Wired | February, 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 | 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 |
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| 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 |
