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[igvita.com] Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser - igvita.com: [...] Collaborative Map-Reduce in the Browser - igvita.com Instead of focusing on high-throughput proprietary protocols and high-efficiency data planes to distribute and deliver the data, we could use battle tested solutions: HTTP and your favorite browser. It just so happens that there are more Javascript processors around the world (every browser can run it) than for any other language out there - a perfect data processing platform.

[TG Daily - All News] TG Daily - IBM and Harvard search for organic solar power using ...: The effort will look for organic materials capable of producing low-cost, easy-to-manufacture solar cells which, according to WGC's stated goals, could help reduce man's contributions to global warming by reducing the amount of fossil fuels burned.

[MetaFilter] Distributed computing: something for everyone, a call to arms ...: Whether this kind of donation is better in the sense that it's tangibly being used for computation is beside the point that it's hidden, and if we had instead given a check for that amount to the Stanford department of biology/chemistry which heads up Folding@Home (or more to the point, giving money to a walk for breast cancer, rather than giving clocks to cancer computation), we could have seen a tax deduction for charitable contribution.

[ACM Queue - All Queue Content] A Conversation with David Anderson - ACM Queue: Finally, we would like BOINC to handle a wider range of applications, including those that have very large data sets or that require low-latency communication. Some nice mechanisms have been developed in the context of file-sharing and instant-messaging networks, such as BitTorrent, jxta, and Jabber, and we hope to incorporate aspects of these into BOINC.

[Malagent's Sandbox] Distributed computing: For example, stat races are a measure of the work a distributed computing project has been able to compute over the past day or week. This has been found to be so important in practice that virtually all distributed computing projects offer online statistical analyses of their performances, updated at least daily if not in real-time.

[Coding Horror] Coding Horror: Folding: The Death of the General Purpose CPU: If a card with a suitable GPU is 18x faster, and costs the same as 4/5 of a year's electricity, then maybe you could buy one and run your client for 1/10 the time, and feel virtuous on both folding work and energy fronts (though I don't know how much energy or other resources the card takes to manufacture), and get a spiffy new card in the process.

[HPCwire: High Performance Computing in Research & Academia] HPCwire: Parabon Serves Up HPC Cycles: Sun Studio Compilers and Tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compiler support.

[Tropophilia] Spare Cycles: Distributing Computing Among Machines and Minds ...: So what’s the deal?  Most image search engines have only two things to go on when scouring the web in response to your query: the title of the image, and the words surrounding the image on a webpage.  By using the information gathered from The ESP Game, however, search engines now have human-generated and -verified terms that describe the subject of the image, the colors of the image, even the quality of the image.  By playing a (fun and addictive) game, players help make the web more searchable.

[Digsby Blog] Digsby Blog » Keeping Digsby Free and Ad-Free: In starting to test these two revenue models we made one major mistake.  This blog post should have gone up two weeks ago when we first started testing them instead of right now.  We have been a user-focused company from the day we launched Digsby.  We pride ourselves with the level of customer support we offer and our development process is guided almost entirely by the feedback and suggestions we get from our users.  We want to do our best keep this reputation as we keep pushing harder than ever to make Digsby an even better product.  Not announcing this before we started testing it created the misconception that we were trying to hide something when in reality we just didn’t want to make a big announcement like this blog post until we decided to make these things a permanent part of Digsby.  It was a PR mistake and we learned our lesson.  As a young startup we have many more lessons to learn and we will keep doing our best to provide you with a useful communication tool.

[Tupil Code Blog] Tupil Code Blog » Blog Archive » Grid Computing using Javascript: If you have a problem that you can solve by using map-reduce, you could do the map step in the client’s web-browser, and let them send back the result. Most clients would never know you’re doing this, and by only using a couple of seconds from their processor time, they also wouldn’t notice.

[Jacks of Science] Jacks of Science » Blog Archive » Where Are The Grey Hat Scientists?: It has been speculated that the magnitude of computing power distributed across these zombie computers is enormous! Meanwhile, distributed computing projects such as Folding@Home, a project where people donate computing cycles to fold .

[XYHD.tv] Folding at Home is Killing the Planet Wednesday 25th of March 2009: It is also worth noting, the PS3, an Xbox 360, Even your PC is not really designed to run at 100% CPU usage all of the time, that additional heat will greatly increase the likelihood of a Failure. If your MTBF is 3 years, assuming the device is on 6 hours a day you can expect that it will be 9 months to one year if the device is run at 100% 24 hours a day.

[About PlayStation Games] PS3 to Be the First Videogame Console to Give Back to Humanity: This means that the PS3 will be the first home videogame console to donate unused CPU time to better humankind. "It's more than another game system honey, I'm actively contributing to science!"

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