Sunrun, a leading U.S. residential solar and energy storage service provider, has officially launched a pilot project for ...

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 ...

Distributed Computing Project Proposal Utilization of unused processing capacityIntroduction Distributed computing is a technique which solves a large computational problem by subdividing the task ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Enigma@home project uses a distributed volunteer computing network to crack Nazi codes from the 1940s. You can donate your spare PC processing power to dozens 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 ...

Most people hear “data center” and think of giant warehouses, endless server racks, and neighborhoods fighting new construction projects. But Nvidia has a different idea. Instead of building ...