A variety of distributed computing projects have grown up in recent years. Many are run on a volunteer basis, and involve users donating their unused computational power to work on interesting ...

Mr. King said that projects such as Seti@Home, a distributed computing search for extraterrestrial life, have an "inbuilt geek factor" that draws Web surfers to donate their computer resources to ...

This project holds the distinction to be the first and one of the largest medical distributed computing projects. Folding@Home is purely scientific and not for profit project.

There are about 50 distributed computing projects around the world that rely on members of the public to volunteer unused computing power from their home computers to help process scientific data.

The project is a partnership of Entropia Inc. of San Diego, a distributed computing technology company, and the Molecular Graphics Laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

The institute said distributed computing allows for the deployment of new targets to tens of thousands of computers running the program, collectively called the Drug Design and Optimization Lab ...

The distributed computing project is now working with about 470 petaflops of output in its quest to fold proteins, or enough to eclipse the world's top seven supercomputers combined.

I also participate in some of the distributed crypto challenges, trying to break small key sizes. Now, I’m adding another distributed computing project to my computers with Free Rainbow Tables.

For useful projects that are impractical on a single machine yet not large enough to justify their own dedicated effort like folding@home, it'd be good if there was a 'general-purpose' distributed ...