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 ...

A tool being offered to IT managers that blocks distributed computing applications should not affect humanitarian and health research projects, according to Oxford University research scientists.

This may be in the wrong forum, and I don't intend to cause any contention... just was wondering... have any of the distributed computing projects (other than the prime numbers one) actually produced ...

Funded by a $31.5 million grant from the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will lead the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing, ...

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 ...

Software to be launched in January will let PC users run as many “distributed computing” projects as they like. The program will let PC users search for aliens, help predict climate change and perform ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Guinness World Records has officially recognised Sony's Folding@home program as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world. As previously reported, Folding@home surpassed the one ...