Tag: DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

The European Union has unveiled the European Grid Infrastructure project, which will allow researchers to tap into the collective power of more than 200,000 desktop computers across 30 EU nations. That's a whole lotta computing power. As is the case with similar distributed computing projects like SETI@home, the thought behind EGI is that those 200,000 computer systems are sitting idle more ...

More than a million volunteers have dedicated spare CPU cycles on their home and work computers to helping find signs of extraterrestrial life. So far, they've had no luck on that front, but the SETI@home project has at least helped one man find a missing laptop. Software programmer James Melin's wife's laptop was stolen in January. It also happened to be one of 7 computers that Melin had ...

The BBC has launched what it's calling "the world's largest ever climate experiment," a distributed computing project that will use thousands of volunteered home computers, a la SETI@Home, to predict climate change. The climate experiment, which apparently lacks a snappy name (or any name at all), utilizes a fancy screensaver that, like other distributed computing projects, uses your ...

CPUShare is an interesting and ambitious distributed computing venture. As with most distributed computing projects, you share your computer's spare CPU cycles. With CPUShare, however, you get rewarded in "CPUCoins," which you can pay other users with to buy CPU cycles for your own projects. Moreover, you can sell your CPU cycles for real money. The project is in its infancy, and as such ...