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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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2010 |
Microsoft Rolls Out High Performance Server New servers will deliver impressive compute power, particular for speeding Excel processing. |
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.' |
Bio-IT World
November 14, 2003
Salvatore Salamone |
Horsepower for Hire On-demand computing services provide an alternative to buying the server farm for life sciences companies and others with heavy computing requirements. |
CIO
April 15, 2003
Fred Hapgood |
Plug and Pay Utility computing promises processing power when you need it, where you need it. But the technology isn't making sparks fly yet. |
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006 |
This Problem Process Is Nothing--Literally The mystery behind System Idle Process on your Task Manager. |
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... |
Entrepreneur
November 2005
Jennifer Pellet |
Money Buzz 11/05 Controlling online payments, expensive medical plans and more. |
CIO
April 1, 2002
Eric Berkman |
Power Pool Distributed processing gets an updated look as vendors go for the grid... |
InternetNews
December 12, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Ivy Leaguers Tap Into Sun's Grid Sun Microsystems gives Princeton University 100,000 hours on the Sun Grid Compute Utility to conduct astrophysical tests. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 28, 2009
Tim Beyers |
Is the Netbook Doomed? Do today's netbooks have the horsepower to run multiple simultaneous scripts inside a full-featured browser, in a way that replicates the PC experience? Will they? Is this the end of netbooks? |
InternetNews
November 30, 2005
David Needle |
HP Goes Public With Utility Computing Hewlett Packard is broadening its six-year-old utility computing initiative by making it publicly available for the first time, primarily to enterprise customers. |
InternetNews
February 6, 2004
Alexander Wolfe |
Interop, the Web Services Watchword Are too many groups working on too many specifications for Web services? Some experts think so. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Amazon's Bright Cloud? Will cloud computing produce heavenly returns for Amazon.com? |
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
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. |
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? |
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
February 11, 2004
Clint Boulton |
IBM, Veritas Lead New Utility Computing Standard New interoperability standard would be competing with a similar effort from EDS and Computer Associates. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 24, 2009 |
Platform Computing in HPC Play With HP's Help Purchase of HP's MPI (Message Passing Interface) technology will advance Platform Computing's high performance computing push. |
InternetNews
March 21, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Grid Computing For Sale, PayPal Accepted Sun Microsystems is making its Sun Grid Compute Utility available over the Web in the U.S., charging customers $1 per hour per CPU through billing fulfillment provider PayPal. |
PC Magazine
June 20, 2008
Larry Seltzer |
Using Antivirus Helps Save the Planet Cutting down on your computer's CPU usage conserves more energy. |
InternetNews
June 23, 2006
David Needle |
IBM Grows Grid Iron There's growth in grids. IBM said in response to increasing worldwide demand for supercomputing resources, it is expanding the availability of computer resources available through its computing on demand program. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
CFO
November 17, 2003
Anne Stuart |
Utility Computing It's a little bit outsourcing. It's a little bit re-architecting. It's hard to describe. As with any potential technology revolution, the concept of utility computing faces plenty of potential barriers. |
Linux Journal
December 1, 2006
Ray Walker |
Examining Load Average Understanding work-load averages as opposed to CPU usage. |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Clint Boulton |
Is Creative Computing Gridlocked? IBM and Sun are headed for a showdown as they try to create new pricing schemes, experts say. |
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. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
AMD Lays Out The Path To Fusion Now that it has absorbed ATI Technologies, AMD today laid out a strategy and plan for the next two years that involve integrated graphics processing technologies at every level. |
InternetNews
May 3, 2004
Jim Wagner |
PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card? Not quite. But the popular online payment company's new Web services platform adds more detail to credit card purchases online. |
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
September 21, 2004
Michael Singer |
Sun's Utility Grid To Open for Business The company debuts its pay-per-use services in increments of an hour starting at less than a dollar. |
