“Edge computing also means less data travels long distances, lowering the load on main servers and networks,” says Neel ...

A tool being offered to IT managers that blocks distributed computing applications should not affect humanitarian and health research projects, according to Oxford University research scientists.

A project that uses distributed computing techniques to search for anti-cancer drugs says that its work is yielding useful results. The UK-based Find-A-Drug group announced on Wednesday that it has ...

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 ...

I work with simulation and modeling and sometimes we have to run large tasks that would take days to complete on a single computer. Currently our method of dealing with these is to break up job into ...

The Folding@Home community has turned its attention toward the fight against COVID-19, and it now has massive computational power at its disposal as a result. The distributed computing project is now ...

As the global focus on artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand, the demand for high-performance computing resources ...

Sun Microsystems has agreed to fund the next generation of SETI@Home, the University of California's distributed computing project that lets computer users donate unused processor cycles to aid the ...

Folding@home 2.0 is ready for download, and Mac OS X graphical user interface and command line interface clients are now available for the first time. Folding@home is a distributed computing project ...

Still #110 on team Ars, I crunched a lot of WU back in the day. I switched to F@H for a while, but when I went to Japan the 3rd time about 2007 I lost interest. I haven't ran a distributed client in a ...

Yesterday, we reported that there was no Mac client available for ClimatePrediction, a Web site that examines the ways Earth’s climate could change. We urged interested parties that would like to see ...