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Distributed computing racks up anti-cancer wins
News A project that uses distributed computing techniques to search for anti-cancer drugs says that its work is yielding useful results. This success illustrates the effectiveness of distributed computing projects such as Find-a-Drug, which itself is...
[November 13, 2003, 15:15]
Distributed computing project takes on Xbox security
News The bid to break the video game console's encryption has been launched by the Neo project, a group of computing enthusiasts using distributed computing techniques to crack security challenges. Distributed computing, most commonly known from the...
[January 7, 2003, 10:39]
Distributed computing enjoys prime success
News Searching for prime numbers is one type of computing task that can be easily divided among many computers, an approach called distributed computing. The technique has spawned a small industry, though, typically for customers that use distributed...
[December 28, 2005, 11:45]
Grid - Distributed Computing at Scale: An Overview of Grid and the Open Grid Forum4.5
White Papers Grid is a core concept in modern distributed computing architectures and is aligned with other important distributed computing technologies such as virtualization, service-orientation and data center automation.
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Distributed computing for the masses
News Distributed computing for the masses Laurance Doyle, of PlanetQuest, talks to use about his new distributed-computing project aimed at boosting interest in the sciences Seems altruistic enough, but the yet-to-be-released software is grounded in an...
[June 2, 2005, 18:10]
Distributed computing gets top marks
News A group of chemists -- including Stanford assistant professor Vijay Pande -- said they successfully predicted the folding rate of a protein using calculations worked out on a so-called distributed computing network.
[October 23, 2002, 13:58]
Distributed computing tackles climate change
News In 2001, a distributed computing scheme to search for a cure for cancer was launched. Computer users who want to put their spare computing power to good use can now do their bit to help predict the impact that climate change will have on the Earth.
[February 16, 2006, 8:45]
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
News More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt to break three...
[February 27, 2006, 16:30]
Distributed computing's prime moment
News Although the arrival of profit motive has transformed distributed computing, its roots remain in academic pursuits such finding optimal Golomb rulers or alien radio signals. The San Diego company sells software to enable "distributed computing...
[December 13, 2001, 13:44]
Cancer researchers unbowed by distributed computing block
News A tool being offered to IT managers that blocks distributed computing applications should not affect humanitarian and health research projects, according to Oxford University research scientists. Antivirus vendor Sophos last week announced updated...
[October 30, 2006, 15:41]
Yahoo and uni team up on distributed computing
News Yahoo has announced a programme to encourage the development of software around distributed computing. The open-source programme will see Yahoo push work around Hadoop — an environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data via...
[November 13, 2007, 9:10]
Perspectives on Grid: Grid Computing - Next-Generation Distributed Computing
White Papers This paper provides a cursory analysis of the similarities and differences between grid computing and such distributed computing systems as P2P, CORBA, cluster computing, and DCE. Two major needs have dramatically increased the value of the concept...
[March 3, 2009, 0:54]
A High Performance MPI for Parallel and Distributed Computing
White Papers Message Passing Interface is widely used for Parallel and Distributed Computing. MPICH and LAM are popular open source MPIs available to the parallel computing community also there are commercial MPIs, which performs better than MPICH etc.
[October 22, 2008, 1:01]
Running a Traffic Model on a Linux Cluster: Using MATLAB's Distributed Computing Toolbox
White Papers Distributed computing has become an accepted technology to reduce the time needed to perform large computations. The MathWorks has anticipated this development by introducing the Distributed Computing Toolbox for MATLAB.
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
HW-SW Framework for Distributed Parallel Computing on Programmable Chips
White Papers This paper addresses a new hardware/software Multi Processor System-on-a-Chip (MPSoC) co-design methodology to map PVM/MPI parallel software framework to a developed multiprocessor architecture for distributed parallel computing on a chip.
[March 20, 2008, 0:02]
An Extenics-Based Load Balancing Mechanism in Distributed Computing Systems
White Papers In distributed computing systems, load balancing is one of the most important factors that affect the system performance. This paper presents a sender-initiated dynamic load balancing policies in a distributed computing system.
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
Applications of QKD Network for High Performance Distributed Computing
White Papers This paper presents a model for the exploitation of QKD security networks in high performance distributed computing applications, such as grid computing. Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a point to point secure key generation technology which...
[November 3, 2008, 0:01]
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
Talkback Seeing as how the War is over, did anyone think of just searching the German historical archives instead of recruiting lots of PCs to crank Global Warming up a notch ;-)?
[February 28, 2006, 7:50]
Distributed computing tackles climate change
Talkback I just hope they get the algorithms right at last. Until now they have been woefully unable to replicate the historically recorded weather for the last 1100 years so unless something is seriously wrong with history as recorded, we need the...
[February 17, 2006, 22:08]
Distributed Parallel Resource Co-Allocation With Load Balancing in Grid Computing
White Papers It is well known that load balancing is a key factor in developing parallel and distributed applications. Resource Co-allocation is one of the crucial problems affecting the performance of the grid. In addition to this if the system load in each of...
[July 10, 2008, 1:01]
