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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 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]
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 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 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'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]
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 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]
Using SAS In A Distributed Computing Environment
White Papers The Platform LSF software is a software solution which allows organizations to take advantage of their distributed computing resources. Benefits include: quicker time to solution by enabling the use of distributed processors and by controlling...
[May 8, 2007, 0:00]
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]
Java RMI: A New Approach To Distributed Computing
White Papers The proliferation of the personal computer and the spread of the Internet have triggered a growing need for distributed computing applications, but progress in this field has been slow. Traditional distributed programming has assumed a...
[July 18, 2007, 0:00]
Grids And Grid Technologies For Wide-Area Distributed Computing
White Papers In fact, many applications can benefit from the Grid infrastructure, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and of course distributed supercomputing. The early efforts in Grid computing started as a...
[November 30, 2004, 23:00]
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]
An Executive Guide To On Demand Distributed Computing With WebSphere
White Papers This paper provides an executive level overview of how IBM WebSphere applications are easily deployed in the On Demand Distributed Computing model -- resulting in instantly scalable and high performance Web applications that transform I.T.economics.
[May 4, 2004, 0:00]
From Distributed Systems To Ubiquitous Computing - The State Of The Art, Trends, And Prospects Of Future Networked Systems
White Papers This paper summarizes trends in communication paradigms for networked systems, mention well-established as well as innovative software infrastructures for distributed systems (such as COM+, CORBA, .NET and Jini), and give an overview of...
[July 1, 2004, 0:00]
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 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]
A Comparison Of TCP Automatic Tuning Techniques For Distributed Computing
White Papers Rather than painful, manual, static, per-connection optimization of TCP buffer sizes simply to achieve acceptable performance for distributed applications [8, 10], many researchers have proposed techniques to perform this tuning automatically [4...
[April 3, 2007, 0:00]
CLASH: A Protocol For Internet-Scale Utility-Oriented Distributed Computing
White Papers Distributed Hash Table (DHT) overlay networks offer an efficient and robust technique for wire-area data storage and queries. Emerging applications such as massively multiplayer online games and peer-to-peer content delivery networks may benefit...
[February 29, 2008, 23:00]
Framework For Peer-to-Peer Distributed Computing In A Heterogeneous, Decentralized Environment
White Papers This paper presents a framework for large-scale computations for problems that feature coarse-grained parallelization. The components of this framework are based on Java, which allows for a wide variety of platforms and components, and peer-to-peer...
[October 21, 2003, 0:00]
