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  • Sun funds Seti@home

    Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.

  • Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home: participants

    The SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring reports that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants that threaten to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects.

  • Distributed computing goes corporate

    Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realise how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.

  • Division of labour

    The world's most powerful computer is sitting on your desktop and works only while you're asleep. Welcome to the world of distributed computing.

  • Sophos blocks SETI @ work

    Antivirus firm Sophos has updated its application control software so IT managers can block distributed applications such as SETI@home from being used on corporate desktops.

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  • Distributed computing goes corporate

    Everyone knows what distributed computing is, but few realise how some enterprises are reharnessing this resource to power critical projects and applications, and why tech leaders should be paying attention.

  • What on earth are grids anyway?

    What exactly is grid computing? Here are answers to everything you wanted to know about the technology but were afraid to ask.

  • Grid computing boosts hacker network

    A worldwide hacker confederation is setting up a grid of processing power to crack e-commerce passwords. If you think this is crazy, Wayne Rash says "think again."

  • Distributed computing: Power grid

    Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.

  • 2002 - The year that was

    ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.

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Reviews (2)

  • PC army tackles Xbox security code

    A growing army of PC owners is hoping to use the power of the masses to crack the main security code of Microsoft's Xbox and claim $100,000 in the process.

  • Tech Guide: Software on the cheap

    Fed up with paying through the nose for programs? Need to repopulate a system with applications following a disaster? You need our guide to free and low-cost software.

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