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 ...

Distributed computing and systems software form the critical backbone of modern digital infrastructures by enabling a network of autonomous computers to work collaboratively. This paradigm supports ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

As a subset of distributed computing, edge computing isn’t new, but it exposes an opportunity to distribute latency-sensitive application resources more optimally. Every single tech development these ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...