The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID-19 ...

Imagine a planetary computer capable of storing and processing hundreds of petabytes of data for the research needs of a worldwide community of scientists. This is the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid ...

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 ...

new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is spreading around the world, on platforms such as Folding @ home and BOINC. By participating in the project, you can donate the extra computing resources of your ...

The project “ SETI プ ロ ジ ェ ク ト home ”, which explores extraterrestrial life forms using distributed computing, announced that “sufficient data has been collected for analysis”, and since March 31, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay, so I'm trying to find something cool to dislay on my system while I'm not using it and I'd love do donate some cycles to a good cause. <BR><BR>Any nominations for "Coolest Looking" distributed ...

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 ...