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.
Criminals behind the Storm worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs, which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence.
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.
Microsoft is aiming to have its first cluster version of Windows ready in time for a supercomputing conference in November.
Reports that a group set up as part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) has detected a radio transmission that it suspects could be a signal from an alien civilisation have been dismissed by the organisation.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
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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.
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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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.
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.
Stanford University scientists have shown that distributed computing, using thousands of low- end PCs, can have real results.
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