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Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Donate Your PC's Downtime to Scientific Research Your computer rarely employs 100 percent of its processing capability, and it uses very little while sitting idle. Distributed computing combines the unused processing-power of multiple Internet-connected computers for scientific number crunching.   |
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. |
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. |
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? |
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? |
CIO
June 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
United We Crunch Statistics on the distributed computer power used during the anthrax research crunch. |
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 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. |
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. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Distributed.outrage How could installing a screensaver be a crime against the state? |
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. |
PC World
March 20, 2001
Tom Mainelli |
Juno's Revised Service Agreement Irks Users Juno may require its free service users to participate in its distributed computing project by allowing computations to run on their computers during idle time. |
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. |
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. |
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.' |
Salon.com
December 14, 2000
Damien Cave |
Come together, right now, over P2P Popular Power will pay to borrow your computer and make the world a better place... |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
Idle cures Taking a coffee break could help find cures for cancer or Aids. Katrina Megget looks at the future of research that harnesses the computing power of the World Community Grid |
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... |
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... |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Gagliardi & Grey |
Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). |
InternetNews
May 6, 2004
Michael Singer |
Intel Takes 'Proactive' Approach to R&D CTO Pat Gelsinger charts a course for processors that use probability to anticipate a user's actions. |
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. |
Fast Company
May 2010
Chuck Salter |
How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research. |
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. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
Bank Technology News
February 2001
Karen Epper Hoffman |
Peer-to-Peer is Here Venture capital is drying up for most Internet "wannabes," but it's pouring into P-to-P computing... |
Industrial Physicist
Aug/Sep 2003
Kaufman et al. |
Forum: Grid computing made simple Grid computing enables the use and pooling of computer and data resources to solve complex mathematical problems. The technique is the latest development in an evolution that earlier brought forth such advances as distributed computing, the Worldwide Web, and collaborative computing. |
InternetNews
February 26, 2010 |
Intel Finds Windows 7 Deployment Not So Easy Intel reports that breaking up with Windows XP is hard to do. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2005
David Needle |
Intel Developer Tools Target Clusters Intel released five software development tools for the creation of distributed applications used in high-performance computing clusters. |
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
December 8, 2008
Andy Patrizio |
Multi-Core a Drag on Some HPCs Turns out throwing more cores at certain high performance computing tasks can make the situation worse. |
InternetNews
February 8, 2005 |
Intel Updates Dual Core Plans The update on its dual- and multi-core plans is seen giving Intel an edge against rivals that are also racing to get their next-generation chips into the market. |
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... |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Anders Bylund |
Will Intel Break an ARM? Intel's mobile hardware is ready for a close-up. Will the paparazzi bite? |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Intel's Dual Core Farther on Roadmap New CEO and new details on Intel's platformization strategy and product plans. |
InternetNews
April 22, 2004
Michael Singer |
Intel Adds a Nook to the Digital Home The chipmaking giant invests $200 million in four companies specializing in ultra-wideband and other networking technologies. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Yahoo, CRL Look to The Clouds For Computing Power With new research partnership, Yahoo taps one of the world's fastest supercomputers for cloud-computing projects. |
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? |
Information Today
January 2001
Shirl Kennedy |
Internet Waves: A Trendmeister's Technology Forecast It's your amateur trendmeister here. Although there are no mega-corporations lining up to pay me Big Bucks for my prognostications, the good folks at Information Today are willing to compensate me to fill this space with my amateur technology forecast... |
Geotimes
April 2004
Tim Palucka |
A Climate of Your Own The largest climate modeling experiment ever devised is running on borrowed time, literally. The model is taking computing time on loan from more than 47,000 personal computers worldwide, with the full knowledge and consent of their owners. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
'WinTel' to Fund Parallel Computing Research Microsoft and Intel say they'll fund a pair of research centers aimed at high-end parallel computing. |
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. |
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... |
PC Magazine
September 4, 2007
John Delaney |
15 Ways to Reinvent Your PC Don't toss your old PC just because it can't run Microsoft's new OS. Here are 15 great uses for an older PC (mostly free!) that prove it's worth keeping around. |
CIO
May 29, 2014
Stephanie Overby |
CIOs Join Forces to Battle Cancer A coalition of healthcare IT chiefs are on a mission to put cancer out of business and share IT best practices, technology tips, and personal support. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2011
Joe Tenebruso |
Why I'm Adding Intel to My Watchlist This chip giant is far from dead. |
InternetNews
May 12, 2009
Andy Patrizio |
Intel Chief Outline Plans for Growth Seeking an opportunity in chaos, Intel's CEO sees opportunities in new and expanding markets. |
