Distributed computing is all the rage and some of the scientific projects underway look like they might well enable profound advances. The big question is how do we make it worthwhile for people and ...

Well f@h exposed me to an interesting range of issues. First off, good luck getting work units unless you have a super high end machine. I've read the logs and the work units and many specify more ...

I've been wondering about this for some time. It's been years since the first massive distributed computing project. We have "searched for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence", attempted to find ...

The Enigma@home project uses a distributed volunteer computing network to crack Nazi codes from the 1940s. You can donate your spare PC processing power to dozens of ...

We present the project Asteroids@home that uses distributed computing to solve the time-consuming inverse problem of shape reconstruction of asteroids. The project uses the Berkeley Open ...

A special project to accelerate the hunt for a cure for anthrax by harnessing PCs around the globe using a distributed computing model was unveiled today. In an announcement today, the National ...

TOKYO and FOSTER CITY, Calif., September 19, 2007 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3) computer entertainment systems, part of Stanford University's ...

With the help of tens of thousands of volunteers the distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers 13 new gamma-ray pulsars. An analysis that would have taken more than a thousand years on a ...

Distributed computing project to search for gravitational waves. Washington DC, 14 February 2005 – A new grassroots computing project dubbed Einstein@Home, which will let anyone with a personal ...

The European Commission unveiled an $86 million project to develop the continent’s first large-scale federated distributed computing architecture within telecom networks.