This may be in the wrong forum, and I don't intend to cause any contention... just was wondering... have any of the distributed computing projects (other than the prime numbers one) actually produced ...

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 ...

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 project that uses distributed computing techniques to search for anti-cancer drugs says that its work is yielding useful results. The UK-based Find-A-Drug group announced on Wednesday that it has ...

How many computers working together would you need to be faster than the world's best supercomputers? This week, the distributing computing project Folding at Home found out. Their software uses ...

Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month, thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of ...

A research institute is harnessing the power of thousands of computers over the Internet to investigate potential drug treatments for deadly avian influenza. The Rothberg Institute for Childhood ...

A special project to accelerate the hunt for a cure for anthrax by harnessing PCs around the globe using a distributed computing model was unveiled today. In an announcement today, the National ...

Projects are part of the BOINC system that use idle computer time to help scientific exploration. Asteroids@Home aims to increase knowledge of the physical properties of asteroids. The project uses ...