Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals for ...

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 ...

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which got the MilkyWay@Home distributed computing project going back in 2006, now says that the petaflop-plus processing power of the research project now beats that ...