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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...   |
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. |
JavaWorld
October 2000
Mark Johnson |
Power from the people JavaWorld columnist Mark Johnson recently had the opportunity to speak with Nelson Minar about his company's business model, the technological challenges facing Popular Power, and Java's role in answering those challenges... |
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
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. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Distributed.outrage How could installing a screensaver be a crime against the state? |
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... |
CIO
June 15, 2002
Lafe Low |
United We Crunch Statistics on the distributed computer power used during the anthrax research crunch. |
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. |
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? |
Wired
December 2000
David Pescovitz |
Monsters in a Box Think you know what a supercomputer is? Think again: the real thing will blow your mind... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
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. |
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
February 2011
Peter Kogge |
Next-Generation Supercomputers Supercomputers are now running our search engines and social networks. But the heady days of stunning performance increases are over |
National Defense
March 2011
Eric Beidel |
In Global Supercomputing Race, China Moves to Front Of the Pack Supercomputers are critical for engineering simulations that lead to the creation of state-of-the-art weapon systems like the stealth aircraft that is now being developed by the Chinese. They help the military develop complex battle simulations. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
George Lorenzo |
How The Global Hive Mind Is Teaming Up To Find A Cure For Alzheimer's Some intrepid scientists are trying to exploit the hive mind -- teaming some of the smartest computation researchers in the world. |
PC Magazine
August 12, 2011 |
Tech Icons Reflect on PC's 30th Anniversary Today marks the 30th anniversary of the PC, and the industry speaks. From Bill Gates to Meg Whitman, tech leaders, icons, and innovators talk about what the PC has meant to the world. |
Wired
December 2002
Kevin Kelly |
God Is the Machine Digital physics suggests that those strange and insubstantial quantum wavicles, along with everything else in the universe, are themselves made of nothing but 1s and 0s. The physical world itself is digital. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2010
Erik Nilsson |
Seattle's Growing Advantage in the Cloud How cloud computer is developing with a look at the biggest players and their interest in biotech. |
