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 ...

The world of distributed computing took on a new profile this year when Folding@home, a 20-year-old distributed computing project, found itself picking up thousands of new volunteers to help COVID-19 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This experiment was made possible by thousands you who downloaded a computer model that performed calculations to predict future climate. This technique is called distributed computing. How does ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...

In scientific research, huge amounts of processing power-measured in gigaflops, teraflops and even petaflops-are required to perform long and complex calculations in the areas of human protein folding ...

Charity Engine is a "citizen science" non-profit organisation that taps into the latent computational power of idle computers. When those computers are not being used their processors help with one of ...

What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause. The object is called a disrupted binary ...