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.
Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.
Yahoo has announced a program to encourage the development of software around distributed computing, with researchers from Carnegie Mellon University already signed up.
The computer maker will unveil "Terascale," which uses 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors housed in 750 servers and calculates as fast as 10,000 desktop PCs.
Academic supercomputing labs continue to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers over the last month, as law enforcement officials investigate the crimes.
When designing a data centre, conventional wisdom holds that servers should do the thinking while storage systems should hang onto the data. But some industry heavyweights have begun seeing things a little differently.
A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.
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.
IBM is shedding light on a program to create the world's fastest supercomputer, illuminating a dual-pronged strategy, an unusual new processor design and a leaning toward the Linux operating system.
German Linux seller SuSE has unveiled a version of the open-source operating system tailored for Intel's Itanium chip.
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