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  • 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.

  • Can your PC crack the secrets of the universe?

    Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time.

  • SETI@home vulnerable

    A security vulnerability has been found in SETI@home, the software used by millions of Internet users to search for extraterrestrial 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.

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    More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine.

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  • 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 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.

  • Tap desktop processing power

    Large enterprises often have massive computational needs without a matching budget. Find out how a distributed system using open source Condor can harness the processing power of idle desktops.

  • 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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  • 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.

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