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  • IBM pumps millions into 'computer farms'

    IBM plans to take a distributed computing concept from the theoretical realm and make it a corporate reality.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • SETI@home needs more PC power

    Despite successfully running for many years, astronomers behind the SETI@home project are looking for more computing power as they ramp up the amount of data they look at. And they want to borrow your system's spare time to do it.

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  • 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.

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