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

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

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    Administrators of the alien-hunting distributed computing experiment SETI@home have announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics on computing power lent to the project following a united protest from its chief contributors.

  • 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.

  • Supercomputing: Virtually fighting disease

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

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  • Grids over the enterprise WAN

    SPECIAL REPORT Currently more an academic curiosity than a commercial venture, grid computing will eventually affect enterprises -- as long the concept survives the hype.

  • 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.

  • Can the Net survive filtering?

    Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.

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  • IBM, screensaver to tackle smallpox

    IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate anti-smallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday.

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