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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The University of Oulu and the Finnish Meteorological Institute has reported results from the '6G Visible' research project ...
Dubbed the World Community Grid, the distributed computing-style project would split complex computing chores into millions of pieces, then parse them out to idle personal computers for the heavy ...
A research institute is harnessing the power of thousands of computers over the Internet to investigate potential drug treatments for deadly avian influenza. The Rothberg Institute for Childhood ...
In an era where unplanned IT downtime now averages $14,056 per minute, and over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises ...