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 ...

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 ...

Could someone point me to a site with an overview of the major DC projects?<BR><BR>I realized that I have access to probably close to 50 computers I could put towards a DC project if I can convince my ...

A project that uses distributed computing techniques to search for anti-cancer drugs says that its work is yielding useful results. The UK-based Find-A-Drug group announced on Wednesday that it has ...

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 ...

Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month, thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands 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 ...

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 ...

With the help of tens of thousands of volunteers the distributed computing project Einstein@Home discovers 13 new gamma-ray pulsars. An analysis that would have taken more than a thousand years on a ...