As someone who has spent the better part of two decades optimizing distributed systems—from early MapReduce clusters to ...

WCG uses software developed at Berkley called BOINC, or the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. Past distributed projects, and even current ones such as Folding@Home, use their own ...

Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Folding@home 2.0 is ready for download, and Mac OS X graphical user interface and command line interface clients are now available for the first time. Folding@home is a distributed computing ...

Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray-distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z Ingrid Lunden 6:29 AM PST · December 17, 2019 ...

The research was completely impossible a few years ago for lack of computing power, but now with modern distributed computing technology the researchers were able to get a clearer view of what’s ...

Distributed computing is as old as the hills. This technique started being used across the Internet for public distributed computing projects only in 1997 with distributed.net.

Genuine question: What's the disadvantage of folding@home not being a BOINC project? Isn't BOINC just an interface for multiple distributed computing projects?

A UK-based distributed computing project is revealing new scientific insights into earthquakes. Technologies developed under the Discovery Net project are enabling geophysicists to combine two ...

Participants in distributed computing projects like Seti@home leave their computers switched on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Is California's energy crisis affecting the search for ...

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is using donated computing power to make 20 quadrillion comparisons of 200 million DNA proteins.

Often called "citizen science," this form of distributed computing has continued to catch on since it debuted in 1999 with the alien-seeking SETI@home project, which Anderson still directs.