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[Geeks are Sexy] technology news: First, if you don't know what SETI@Home is, here's a quick recap from Wikipedia: (via Cosmos)
soeren says: allowing virtually anyone - millions upon millions of people - to participate. (I would have called it a “massive multiparticipator grid”; however, the middle word is implied in a grid. But I digress.) We’ve seen such massive grids before: SETI@home to analyze immense amounts of signals picked up in space for possible extraterrestrial intelligence, or later Folding@home to do such fun biology stuff as folding proteins, in hopes of coming up, for instance, with a cure for cancer. I believe the (via Cosmos)
As I May Think...: with the Google Image Labeler, it would seem that Google will once again lengthen its lead over Microsoft, Yahoo and others by providing the world's best and most comprehensive image search capability. Google's competition is currently limited to indexing images based on surrounding text, alt text, or primitive image understanding algorithms. (via Cosmos)
Sun HPC Watercooler : Weblog: Serverwatch takes a look at how Grid computing is moving to mainstream enterprise computing. The importance of SOA in this trend is apparent as the article goes on to describe three types of Grid computing: (via Cosmos)
Soundtrack to Larry: BOINC [IMG ] [IMG ] [IMG ] [IMG ] [IMG ] (via Cosmos)
Dancho Danchev - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge: Distributed computing with malware infected PCs is nothing new as a concept, it's just the lack of botnet master's desire to contribute processing power for anything socially oriented. That's until late last month, when members of Berkeley's BOINC project noticed a project that was suspiciously becoming popular and found out that malware infected PCs had the BOINC client installed to participate in it : (via Cosmos)
[Allhands.org.uk] On two kinds of public-resource distributed computing: tion projects are running using BOINC, includ-. ing SETI@home ... tional Workshop on Grid Computing, Pitts-. burgh, PA, November 2004. ...
[Forums.hexus.net] Seti@Home and Einstein@Home teams - HEXUS.community discussion forums: ooo, do you know if it'll run alright next to my BOINC Client? I leave it running all the time, since I don't really ask my computer to do anything difficult very often and when it does, BOINC happily surrenders its CPU cycles to whatever's more important.
[Boinc.bakerlab.org] "Is Distributed Computing being Distributed Badly?": I think that the tone of this thread is a discussion on why BOINC projects including health sciences are getting a bad wrap. This hurts DC participation across the board including both SETI and ROSETTA.
[Hpl.hp.com] TRUSTED COMPUTING: CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROTOCOLS RUNNING WITH IN ...: grid computing which virtualizes resources to enable .This approach to distributed computing was made popular by the SETI@home .
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[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] If you encountered a labful or officeful of Macs in the early 2000s, chances are good that a bunch of them were running SETI@Home, the 'contributed computing' project to search through radioastronomy signals for the telltale signs of an extraterrestrial civilization. While the classic SETI@Home application was closed down in December of 2005, the successor client for grid science is alive and well: BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, recently updated to version 5.8.15 and happily Universal Binary.