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NSF awards $53 million supercomputing bid

NSF awards $53 million supercomputing bid
The National Science Foundation has awarded contracts worth $53 million to build a grid that connects supercomputer clusters across the country into a single large computing resource called the Distributed Terascale Facility.

Posted by rshah on August 10, 2001| Comments (0)

Intel's Peer-To-Peer Charity

Intel's Peer-To-Peer Charity
Intel Corp. will help medical researchers who want to link millions of personal computers to help find new treatments for cancer and other diseases. The initiative relies on so-called peer-to-peer computing, which taps the power of computers at various locations to get hefty tasks done faster. New applications of the technique could speed up the search for cures for a variety of diseases, see alsoZdnet

Posted by rshah on June 03, 2001| Comments (0)

Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit

Letting the World Plug Into Your PC, for a Profit
By connecting thousands of PC's, they can harness more power than a supercomputer. These companies — called distributed-computing, or "peer to peer," services — then resell the power to other companies and research concerns that need the muscle of a supercomputer but do not want to pay supercomputer prices.

Posted by rshah on June 03, 2001| Comments (0)

Cheating in Distributed Computing Projects

Cheating in Distributed Computing Projects
Cheating to be top ET searcher on Seti@home may be more widespread than previously believed. The project's chief said that while distributed computing projects are a great way to accelerate data processing, peer-to-peer companies must be mindful of those who would compromise security and data integrity.

Posted by rshah on February 16, 2001| Comments (0)

Distributed Computing Technologies Explained: RMI vs. CORBA vs. DCOM

Distributed Computing Technologies Explained: RMI vs. CORBA vs. DCOM
RMI, CORBA, DCOM, RPC, COM+, etc. to many are just meaningless buzzwords that smack more of hype than results. This article is aimed at demystifying these technologies that have revolutionized distributed computing and are transforming businesses all over the world. The article is not strictly targetted at the layman but deep programming knowledge is not needed.

Posted by rshah on February 13, 2001| Comments (0)

Juno And Distributed Computing

Juno And Distributed Computing
Internet service provider Juno Online Services has devised a way to help underwrite its struggling free service: have subscribers leave their computers running 24 hours a day and sell the excess processing, see also Slashdot

Posted by rshah on February 02, 2001| Comments (0)

Dmoz on Distributed Computing

Dmoz on Distributed Computing
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Posted by rshah on January 23, 2001| Comments (0)

Sharing Power - Distributed Computing

Sharing Power - Distributed Computing
Now such "distributed processing" is beginning to solve thorny business problems, from complex graphics to risk analysis to design.

Posted by rshah on November 21, 2000| Comments (0)