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 project that uses distributed computing techniques to search for anti-cancer drugs says that its work is yielding useful results. The UK-based Find-A-Drug group announced on Wednesday that it has ...

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 ...

A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause. The object is called a disrupted binary ...

The anthrax project comes on the heels of a successful similar effort in cancer research that began last April and still continues. 1 Headed by professor Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry at ...

I work with simulation and modeling and sometimes we have to run large tasks that would take days to complete on a single computer. Currently our method of dealing with these is to break up job into ...

Officials at Sony Computer Entertainment (www.sony.com) say that PlayStation®3 (PS3™) will have the capability to connect to Stanford University’s Folding@home program, a distributed computing project ...

Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month, thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of ...