What if some of that unused processing power could help search for new pulsars, model climate systems, or support medical ...

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 ...

I'm a working on a research project that has a piece requiring some knowledge of distributed computing. I focus on a variety of technical topics - but distributed computing is totally new to me, so I ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

Last month Stanford University invited owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game console to join the Folding@Home project, which uses distributed-computing technology to simulate the complicated ...

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 ...

One of the most difficult problems with quantum computing relates to increasing the size of the quantum computer. Researchers globally are seeking to solve this "challenge of scale." To bring quantum ...

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 ...