University of Oxford researchers who used distributed-computing software to identify molecules that could treat anthrax have submitted their results to the U.S. and British governments. Graham ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm a working on a research project that has a piece requiring some knowledge of distributed computing. I focus on a variety of technical topics - but distributed computing is totally new to me, so I ...

We present the project Asteroids@home that uses distributed computing to solve the time-consuming inverse problem of shape reconstruction of asteroids. The project uses the Berkeley Open ...

Last month Stanford University invited owners of Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game console to join the Folding@Home project, which uses distributed-computing technology to simulate the complicated ...

A university team shows that thousands of low-end PCs wrangled together into a loose network can be used effectively on problems scientists encounter in the lab. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

A "grid" technology project at IBM will allow companies to dip into a much larger pool of computing capacity as they need it. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...