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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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<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 ...

Materials science is a rapidly growing area of research in journals tracked by the Nature Index and one where the real-world applications are often an essential part of tackling global environmental ...

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 ...