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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Funded by a $31.5 million grant from the Joint University Microelectronics Program 2.0 (JUMP 2.0), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will lead the ACE Center for Evolvable Computing, ...

Software to be launched in January will let PC users run as many “distributed computing” projects as they like. The program will let PC users search for aliens, help predict climate change and perform ...

So you’d like to do more volunteering but can’t find the time? Here’s an easy way to do it: Donate the spare processing power on your computer via one of the dozens of ongoing volunteer computing ...

One of the most difficult problems with quantum computing relates to increasing the size of the quantum computer. Researchers globally are seeking to solve this "challenge of scale." To bring quantum ...