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InternetNews
September 29, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Video Cards Become Scientific Calculators ATI Technologies and researchers at Stanford University have found a way to use the high-powered graphics processing unit on video cards to perform the number crunching needed for a scientific distributed computing project.   |
InternetNews
March 16, 2007
David Needle |
Stanford Disease Research Effort Calls On PS3 Users Distributed computing makes the PS3's Cell processor a valuable commodity. The aim is to help support Folding@Home, a research effort trying to unlock the the causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis and many cancers. |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Kevin McKean |
Give Your Unused Cycles to Science Say so long to screen savers and use your CPU's idle power for some worthwhile work... |
InternetNews
December 7, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Got Some Spare CPU Cycles? Sell Them New distributed computing project lets you put your idle PC to work. It just needs customers. |
InternetNews
June 17, 2010
Andy Patrizio |
IBM and Idle PCs Help Find Anti-Cancer Drugs Distributed computing can break up a massive task into manageable chunks in certain situations. Is it right for your company? |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Courtney McCarty |
Save the World with Your Screensaver Anybody would like to cure cancer or AIDS or solve the world's most complex problems. With the help of your computer, you can contribute to efforts to solve these enduring puzzles. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Do Try This @ Home In the most impressive sign of distributed computing's awesome potential in biology thus far -- at least in peer-review literature -- researchers have simulated the folding of a mini-protein on a microsecond timescale. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Erik Sofge |
PlayStation 3 Set to Save the World, One Disease at a Time Sony recently released software that lets gamers connect their PS3s to Stanford University's Folding@Home program, which borrows processing power from thousands of PCs to create protein-folding simulations. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Paul Shread |
IBM Launches Public Grid Computing Project IBM hopes to give a boost to large-scale public computing projects - and its own commercial grid vision - with the launch of the new 'World Community Grid.' |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2005
Sebastian Rupley |
The Biggest Grid Yet The World Community Grid seeks to link 10 million or more volunteer computers together through freely downloadable peer-to-peer networking software. |
Wired
August 2000
Howard Rheingold |
You Got the Power Next comes the payoff. A wave of startups is poised to harvest the network's most wasted resource: your idle CPU cycles. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2007 |
Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing Yahoo will launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. |
Insurance & Technology
November 24, 2003
Julie Gallagher |
Is Grid Computing Next Wave? Insurance companies that need to perform large processing tasks like scanning policies to see which ones are likely to generate claims can save money on hardware with grid computing. |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Salvatore Salamone |
P2P's Powerful Promise Systems management remains difficult, but the payoff is getting teraflop computing from a sea of commodity PCs. Just ask Entelos and Novartis. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2007
Anders Bylund |
Can the PlayStation Save Your Life? A PS3 client for a popular scientific research project triples the plan's computing power over the weekend. |
InternetNews
April 5, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
PlayStation 3 Users Power on to Cure Disease Sony PlayStation 3 users have been cranking computer power to help Stanford University-sponsored project Folding@Home project achieve its goal: simulating protein misfolding in an attempt to understand disease. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Mark Hall |
Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public. |
New Architect
April 2002
Jay Lyman |
Girding for the Grid When a computing project demands greater processing resources than are available locally, the grid lets remote machines lend their CPU and storage to the task, across a network... |
Bank Technology News
April 2010
Shanker Ramamurthy |
Why a Green Datacenter Makes Dollars And Sense With data centers using ten to 30 times more energy per square foot than office space and data center energy use doubling every five years, energy efficiency is becoming a key metric of IT operational effectiveness. |
Scientific American
May 6, 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Processing for Science Save for computationally intense tasks, typical modern PCs almost never employ their full power. Distributed computing takes advantage of this spare capacity, dividing large tasks over the Internet for idle computers to work on. |
Bio-IT World
February 18, 2004 |
A Preventable Informatics Crime If informatics computing on loosely coupled dedicated servers (clusters or compute farms) is such an attractive solution, why are life science IT shops still blowing big bucks on refrigerator-look-alike symmetric multiprocessor machines? |
Technology Research News
December 31, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Tool eases Grid monitoring Although the concept of coordinating otherwise unused computers distributed around a worldwide network is relatively simple, the coordination takes a lot of effort. As Grid computing becomes more commonplace, researchers are developing tools like Gridscape that simplify the practice. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2010 |
Microsoft Rolls Out High Performance Server New servers will deliver impressive compute power, particular for speeding Excel processing. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006 |
This Problem Process Is Nothing--Literally The mystery behind System Idle Process on your Task Manager. |
Bio-IT World
August 2005 |
New Products Teranode touts model-centric lab data approach... Easier distributed computing... Intel targets multi-core applications... APC offers power backup alternative... |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Peter Krass |
Grid Computing The same technology being used to search of life in outer space could soon help your company save serious time and money. |
PC World
April 4, 2002
George A. Chidi Jr. |
Kazaa Download Offers Unexpected Feature Users may be surprised to learn that application includes software that turns your PC into part of a distributed supercomputer... |
CIO
June 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
United We Crunch Statistics on the distributed computer power used during the anthrax research crunch. |
PHONE+
September 1, 2009
Steve Hilton |
Ask Steve: Is Cloud Computing Ready for SMBs? Wide-scale cloud-based computing offerings for SMBs are still in the early design phase. |
Bank Technology News
August 2008
Rebecca Sausner |
Data Centers in the Clouds As grid computing evolves in the financial services industry, retail banking and card units are climbing aboard. |
InternetNews
November 4, 2009 |
ScaleMP Adds Cloud Virtualization for Servers New product line will help multiple servers operate as a single system and work with cloud provisioning services. |
InternetNews
December 9, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Analysts: Utility Computing a "Developing Concept" Customers and vendors like IBM, Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems are only taking baby steps toward utility computing, according to new research. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 1, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
What's So Great About Grid? You wouldn't allow your employees to remain idle 70 percent of the time. And you shouldn't stand for it with your lazy computers, either. Grid technology allows unused CPU capacity to be used in solving large computational problems. |
InternetNews
September 23, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Mark Linesch, Chairman, Global Grid Forum Mark Linesch runs the Global Grid Forum, an organization dedicated to solving the challenges that face grid computing. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
Wall Street & Technology
January 6, 2006
Leslie Kramer |
Powering Up the Grid Recently, many financial services firms have begun looking into grid computing. By taking advantage of unused CPU capacity, IT departments can increase transaction speed, improve computing agility and reduce costs. |
Bio-IT World
February 11, 2005
Michael Athanas |
When Is it Smarter to Rent? Does it make sense to rent CPU hours instead of acquiring computers? Why haven't life science research groups been drawn to collocation (purchasing access to computing resources located elsewhere)? |
InternetNews
February 14, 2006
David Needle |
Open Source Will Help Advance of Utility Computing Open source software will play an important role in the inevitable move to a utility model of computing. |
InternetNews
December 21, 2010 |
Cloud Picks Up Where Grid Left Off: Cisco CTO Though the two computing technologies bear resemblance in their distributed approach, Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker, a Sun veteran, argues that the cloud has swept in a dynamic new model. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 27, 2005
Larry Tabb |
Plugging Into Utility Computing Greater computational power and increased flexibility have been accompanied by increasing technology and application complexity. |
Salon.com
August 28, 2000
Damien Cave |
Why Intel's into P2P If peer-to-peer networking becomes the "next computing frontier," guess who stands to benefit? |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Paul McFedries |
The Cloud Is The Computer The Internet has become an extension of our computers. |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Your computer can fight AIDS A PC can do more in its spare time than look for aliens. It can also save lives. Even while you're reading this Web page, you could be researching new AIDS treatments, or rather, your computer could... |
InternetNews
December 30, 2010 |
Microsoft Looks to Regain Its Luster in 2011 While Microsoft spent much of 2010 touting its new endeavors in IT segments like mobile, tablet PCs and cloud computing, how will the company make good on those promises next year? |
InternetNews
October 14, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Paul Kim, CTO, Stanford School of Education Another academic year is under way at Stanford University and with it comes new challenges for its IT enterprise. Key topics include the institution's policy on P2P, instant messaging, and security. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Amazon's Bright Cloud? Will cloud computing produce heavenly returns for Amazon.com? |
Bank Technology News
November 2010
John Adams |
How to Tame the Cloud's Electrical Storm Cloud computing is often portrayed as a bastion of efficiency, replacing bloated legacy data centers and saves time, equipment, maintenance and energy for banks. The real picture is far more complex. |
CIO
May 15, 2001
Fred Hapgood |
Good Software Gone Bad Are we ready yet for the beneficial computer virus? Nobody ever even breathes the term virus when discussing grid computing, but in a grid model programs spread out through the landscape, looking for, recognizing and recruiting unused resources... |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Clint Boulton |
Big Blue Turns Green with Grid Computing Deal IBM inks a grid computing deal with the EPA, and also adds to its list of contracts with companies in Asia. |
IndustryWeek
September 1, 2001
John Teresko |
The Promise Of Grid Computing The technology affects all IT fundamentals -- available computing power, applications, and the way businesses collaborate... |
