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  • Tech-crash threatens to take down SETI@home

    The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.

  • Aussies can donate computing time to bioterror fight

    Anyone with a computer can now join the war on terror by allowing excess processing time to be used by the Bioterrorism Antidote Project.

  • 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.

  • Writing file sharing's final chapter

    Computer scientist and entrepreneur Gene Kan draws lessons from the history of P2P to warn what often happens when people get overly excited about new technologies.

  • Reuters reports P2P uptake

    Reuters is considering peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing to deliver content and services. It believes it has spotted a way to make cost savings from this emerging new architecture, popularised by the Napster music-sharing service.

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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.

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