David McOwen is losing a lot of sleep these days over his decision to participate in a distributed computing project two years ago. The former computer administrator at DeKalb Technical College in ...

A 20-year-old Canadian finds the world's largest known prime number using a mere desktop computer, but he wasn?t working alone. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist with a strong foundation in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, focuses on advancements of distributed computing across personal ...

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

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A team of university researchers has verified that a large-scale computer model employing distributed-computing technology can accurately simulate the process of protein folding, in which chain-like ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>From my point of view it is NOT DC software <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>No guff.<P>I was making light of it, did I not get that ...

Adobe Systems has signed a deal with GridIron Software that will enable its video effects software to tap into spare computing power on a network. Under a licensing agreement announced on Monday, ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (AVGO), a global leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, today announced it is now shipping the Jericho4 ...

Are there any useful applications for this or any distributed computing software that would be of any value to the average geek? I have a number of machines i could set up with a small linux kernal ...