Yale computer scientists devise a 'P4P' system for efficient Internet usage May 28, 2008
The working group is hosted by DCIA [Distributed Computing Industry Association] and led by working group co-chairs Doug Pasko from Verizon, and Laird Popkin from Pando. Currently, the group has more than 50 participating organizations. (EurekAlert!)
Tapping The Early Universe For Secrets Of Fundamental Physics May 27, 2008
A new distributed computing project allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused. (Jul. (Science Daily)
Survival strategyThe projects to help Microsoft evolve in the technology world May 25, 2008
His views were echoed by the man who runs the firm's research facility in Silicon Valley, which concentrates on distributed computing. Roy Levin told BBC News: "Our focus is on advancing the state-of-the-art in computing and in inventing things no-one else has. Our mission is to lead that charge.". (BBC News -- Technology)
Microsoft gives students a peek at the future May 24, 2008
Microsoft's Silicon Valley lab, which specializes in distributed computing, employs 50 to 60 people. It is also working on tools to improve online markets, determine how online search results should be ranked and how bugs can be found within large networks, among many projects, Levin said. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
MS touts search, privacy projects May 24, 2008
The Silicon Valley facility focuses on distributed computing. Research, Rashid said, gives Microsoft a chance to respond to a changing competitive environment. (InfoWorld)
Your computers may help save climate May 9, 2008
Instead of using a super computer, it spreads out huge volumes of calculations to thousands of ordinary computers around the world through the Internet, called distributed computing. To take part in this global experiment, download the free software from www. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees May 9, 2008
Reading between the lines of their new deal with the Distributed Computing Industry Association, it seems likely that they'll ultimately be throttling just illegal P2P traffic, once network hardware evolves. Keep in mind that this project remains in its preliminary stage and the numbers could easily change. (USA Today -- Tech)
A CluE in the search for data-intensive computing May 7, 2008
"The software and services that run on these data clusters provide a brand new paradigm for highly parallel, highly reliable distributed computing, especially for processing massive amounts of data," said Jeannette Wing, assistant director for CISE at NSF. Academic researchers have expressed a need for access to similar computing resources that will allow them to engage and explore this emerging and pervasive model of computing. In the last five years, private sector companies have launched a... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Relieving the OTT Burden - Improving Subscribers' Online Video Experience May 6, 2008
"Oversi will be presenting its OverCache MSP solution at the CableNET Pavilion, The Cable Show, in New Orleans, USA (May 18-20, Booth No: 3735) and at CommunicAsia, Singapore (June 17-20, Stand No: 3K2-07).Oversi is an active member of the P4P Working Group (P4PWG), sponsored by the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) ().About OversiOversi offers a breakthrough multi-service platform for over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and other media... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Google, IBM join forces to dominate 'cloud computing' May 3, 2008
"Sam called and wanted to know what we thought about distributed computing," said Schmidt. "We weren't looking to sell them anything," said Palmisano. (EETimes)
Hitachi Data Systems Announces the Industry's Greenest Enterprise-Class Data Center Apr 22, 2008
Additionally, the Power Savings storage service also reduces the number of kilowatt hours (KWH) a storage array consumes which contributes to reducing cooling costs within a data center or distributed computing environment. The Hitachi AMS and WMS systems complement the Hitachi USP V and USP VM systems as tiered or archive storage, especially when configured with SATA disk for lower costs. (BusinessWire)
Univa UD's Cluster Software Ready for Prime Time Apr 16, 2008
The company also has other grid, distributed computing, data center automation and managed services offerings. Tools. (eSecurityPlanet)
Comcast proposes file-sharing 'bill of rights' Apr 16, 2008
The Distributed Computing Industry Association a trade organizationthat says it hasmore than100 members representing P2P and social networking software providers, content rights holders, ISPs and service-and-support companies backed Comcast's move. "The DCIA and our member companies and participants in our working groups believe that private-sector initiatives are generally preferable to regulatory measures in such areas that are as technologically complex and fast-moving as this... (CBC.ca)
Desktop donationHow your PC could help change the world Apr 6, 2008
Volunteer or distributed computing allows researchers to harness idle computers to make mammoth calculations for the good of mankind ... The distributed computing program they use is called malariacontrol ... ET has kept quiet, but thanks to an open-source platform called BOINC, which helps projects share their research with volunteers, distributed computing is now a big noise, with a stunning variety of projects to choose from. (BBC News -- Technology)
Earthquake in Progress: Your Laptop Can Save You! Apr 6, 2008
The is the latest effort in distributed computing that aims to turn your computer into a node in a vast, distributed earthquake detection network. Developed by University of California seismologists and computer scientists, Quake Catcher uses accelerometers already built into many laptops to detect shaking. (io9)
Seismologist's project uses public's laptops to monitor and predict earthquakes Apr 3, 2008
Called , the project involves distributed computing, a method in which different parts of a computer program run simultaneously on two or more computers that are in communication with a central server over a network. Were turning the laptops accelerometers into earthquake monitors, said Cochran, an assistant professor of seismology in the. (EurekAlert!)
Yahoo offers free supercomputing to Hadoop developers Mar 27, 2008
Yahoo has teamed with Computational Research Laboratories (CRL), a lab run by India's Tata Group, to offer supercomputing facilities free to academic institutions in India that are researching large-scale computing, particularly around Apache Hadoop, an open source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation that Yahoo supports ... EKA will run the latest version of Hadoop and other Yahoo-supported, open source distributed computing software such as the Pig parallel... (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Laptops track Earth's shakes, rattles and rolls Mar 27, 2008
Thus was born the latest iteration in distributed computing, which turns the unused computing power of thousands of home computers into a giant supercomputer. The most popular distributed computing program, SETI@home, searches for signals from extraterrestrial intelligence. (Nature News Service)
Yahoo, India's CRL to team on cloud computing Mar 25, 2008
Researchers on the project will tap Apache Hadoop (an open-source distributed computing project of the Apache Software Foundation) to perform data-intensive computing research using CRL's EKA, a 14,400-processor supercomputer that delivers 28 terabytes of memory, 140 terabytes of disk space, peak performance of 180 teraflops and a sustained computation capacity of 120 teraflops by the Linpack benchmark ... EKA is expected to run the latest version of Hadoop and other Yahoo-supported, open-source... (EETimes)
Get Your Tech Experts Here Mar 21, 2008
Famously founded by Xerox in 1970, it is known for innovations such as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. But that doesn t mean that your company can t have access to the kind of R&D talent that can drive technology innovations in the 21st century. (eSecurityPlanet)
Peer-to-peer networks get popular Mar 16, 2008
"In 2005 when we met with content owners, 'peer-to-peer' was a dirty word," said Robert Levitan, chief executive of file-sharing company Pando Networks Inc. "In 2007, finally, content owners came and said 'Yeah, we think there's a role for P2P'." Levitan was speaking on Friday at the first "P2P Market Conference" of the Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade group with more than 100 members. Pando is prime example of mainstream acceptance: It's providing the means for NBC to provide... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
Peer-to-peer networks go legit Mar 15, 2008
Levitan was speaking Friday at the first "P2P Market Conference" of the Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade group with more than 100 members. Pando is a prime example of mainstream acceptance: It's providing the means for NBC to provide DVD-quality downloads of its shows, including "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno. (MSNBC -- Technology)
3D Virus Image, At Highest Resolution Ever Mar 6, 2008
" Cryo-EM requires high-end electron microscopes and powerful computing resources. The research team used the Baylor College of Medicine's cryoelectron microscope. It is expected that Purdue will install a state-of-the-art cryoelectron microscope in 2009. In 2006 Purdue received a 2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to purchase the microscope. It will be installed in Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology, expected to open in 2009. Computer programs are used to extract the signal... (Science Daily)
Yahoo Search Wants to Be More Like Google, Embraces Hadoop Feb 22, 2008
Today, it is shifting a crucial part of its search engine to , software that handles large-scale distributed computing tasks particularly well ... One of the side benefits of having a good distributed computing infrastructure is that it becomes much easier to write ad-hoc programs that run on a large cluster of machines. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
A metering yardstick Feb 15, 2008
That distributed computing program breaks up staggeringly complex calculations among thousands of computers and gaming consoles. You download the client onto your computer or PS3 and then leave it running for eight hours or more as the processors unravel folding proteins, which are key to understanding many deadly diseases and their potential cures. (Globe and Mail)
Aspeed Gets Acquired Feb 13, 2008
SIMtone's virtual desktop services use the company's universal dialtone technology to let users access their virtual desktops from PCs, terminals and mobile devices, helping organizations to save on technology infrastructure costs typically associated with distributed computing environments. Ziegler said Aspeed's technology will "provide a competitive service edge to SIMtone services by expanding desktop and application server capacity across virtual machines by optimizing and balancing the... (eSecurityPlanet)
Folding@home clocks up a million PS3 users Feb 8, 2008
Folding@home makes use of the distributed computing power of personal computers and PS3s from around the world ... It took just six months after PS3 joined for the project to surpass the petaflop computing milestone that had never been reached before by a distributed computing network ... Folding@home was recognised by in September 2007 as the world's most powerful distributed computing network. (VNUNet.com)
Why big consulting is hurting SOA Feb 6, 2008
When doing SOA, or another other complex distributed computing problem for that matter, it pays to obtain honest and objective advice. Even if you only need a consultant for validation of key artifacts, approaches, and technology. (Search Webservices)
One Million PlayStation 3 Users Power Disease Research Feb 6, 2008
The project taps into a designated game console's unused compute power to contribute to a distributed computing network ... One million PlayStation 3 users have helped drive the world's most powerful distributed computing network, Stanford University's Folding@home project ... Six months after PS3 joined Folding@home, the project had spawned the first distributed computing network to surpass a petaflop. (InformationWeek)
Prediction of IT depatment's death refuted Jan 29, 2008
" A handful of readers agree with Carr's rosy predictions for utility computing. "The author points to a number of factors that will help move computing into the cloud and lessen the relevance of IT," says a reader identified as Tom Clement. "I would add that the emergence of standards-based web services and orchestration engines (eg BPEL) makes it more and more possible for non-IT employees to assemble applications that serve their own needs without having to involve IT." An anonymous reader... (Computerworld New Zealand)
Proposed New City Of Istanbul Could Be Refuge In Case Of Severe Earthquake Jan 27, 2008
26, 2008) Istanbul is at such high risk for a devastating earthquake that engineers at Purdue University and the Republic of Turkey have come up with a bold new proposal: build a second city. A second, satellite city would provide immediate refuge to inhabitants of the old city in the event of a catastrophic earthquake and soften such an event's effects on the nation's economy. (Science Daily)
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My PlayStation 3 has the capability of doing such distributed computing with the project built in. I haven't signed up because I'm definitely not leaving that game console on 24/7 because that beast can get HOT, clearly sucking up a lot of juice. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Don't alienate yourself: SETI@home needs you! Jan 4, 2008
Since its inception in 1992, several other distributed computing projects have sprung up, such as which unravels the three-dimensional tangle of proteins, and which models other possible universes. The Arecibo dish is 1000 feet in diameter, filling a valley in Puerto Rico. (EETimes)
Platform Takes Aim at Grid Apps Jan 3, 2008
In other grid news, Maplesoft unveiled a Grid Computing Toolbox that enables distributed computing using the Maple engineering tool to solve complex mathematical problems and create rich technical documents. The Grid Computing Toolbox lets users run Maple computations in parallel in grid environments. (eSecurityPlanet)
Scientists seek web recruits to hunt down ET Jan 3, 2008
The result was a screen saver that processes small packets of data, automatically downloaded from the internet, and sends the results back to the project, known as distributed computing. Since SETIhome was launched, other distributed computing projects have appeared, including Foldinghome to predict the three-dimensional tangle of a protein and Cosmologyhome to model possible universes. (Sydney Morning Herald)
SETI@home ramps up to analyze more data in search of extraterrestrial intelligence Jan 3, 2008
When the team's incoming data overwhelmed its ability to analyze it, the scientists conceived a distributed computing project to harness many computers into one big supercomputer to do the analysis. Since SETI@home was launched, other distributed computing projects have arisen, from folding@home to predict the three-dimensional tangle of a protein to the newly-launched cosmology@home to model possible universes. (EurekAlert!)
Ten things that will change your future Jan 1, 2008
WORLD COMMUNITY GRID The World Community Grid project is one of the latest examples of a concept called distributed computing ... Distributed computing first came to prominence with the project, which uses participants' computers to analyse radio telescope data in the search for extra-terrestrial life. (Sydney Morning Herald)
World's Largest Silicon Tracking Detector Installed At CERN Dec 26, 2007
The results from these data were then rapidly analyzed using the CMS Grid-based distributed computing system. This commissioning demonstrated that the detector fully meets the experiment s requirements. (Science Daily)
How Would Earth Appear To Aliens? Dec 24, 2007
A new distributed computing program analyzes data to characterize new planetary systems by computing the light reflected from nearby extrasolar. . (Science Daily)
Life/ware(TM) Launches Version 2.0.3 Dec 21, 2007
Led by software industry professionals with extensive experience with distributed computing based on open standards and open architecture, Exceptional Innovation combines Microsoft development expertise with years of home control experience to deliver simple, seamless, life-enhancing solutions for the digital home. All product and company names referred to herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
New Folding client for PS3 Dec 20, 2007
Sony's contribution has already made a huge impact, according to the FAH project organisers, who claimed in that the console had helped it become the most powerful distributed computing network ever in the eyes of Guinness World Records. Add to. (Eurogamer)
IBM Reels In Cajasol Dec 18, 2007
Cajasol officials said it plans to upgrade the software in its mainframe and distributed computing environments to improve the security, reliability and availability of its core banking applications. In addition to providing new software and servers, IBM will provide maintenance and consulting services throughout the consolidation project and spiff up the company's disaster recovery software portfolio and processes. (CIO Information Network)
Playing by hand Dec 17, 2007
RoughType Techno-utility complex Phil Wainewright of ZDNet mulls the concept that the computing grid has the potential to be held by "a handful of huge data centers," and he warns against the rise of a "techno-utility complex." Nicholas Carr doesn't think distributed computing is going away, but agrees there are great economies of scale in centralizing computing assets, and it "provides for a more flexible means of sharing information." But they agree there are probably dangers. And while the... (Boston Globe)
Red Hat aims MRG software at IBM, Tibco Dec 5, 2007
Red Hat Enterprise MRG (Messaging, Realtime, and Grid), which is expected to be generally available early next year on a subscription basis, is another piece of the company's so-called "automation" strategy for simplifying how applications are deployed and managed in distributed computing environments. The idea behind automation is to make it as easy as possible for an IT administrator to deploy an application anywhere, whether it's hosted or running on a physical server or a virtual... (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Image Fusion Workshop Showcases Objectivity/DB Nov 30, 2007
Co-presenting with Steinberg is Objectivity Systems Engineer Todd Stavish, who has expertise in a range of distributed computing applications. He will explain the technical implications of using Objectivity/DB to expand situation and threat assessment capabilities. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
IBM offers cloudy blue datacentre vision Nov 16, 2007
IBM is offering its customers the tools to operate their own data centres as if they were hosted distributed computing services ... It's the brainchild of IBM's own distributed computing projects such as its partnership with Google to let students use their hardware to study large-scale cluster computing. (Register)
IBM tips 'Blue Cloud' distributed computing plan Nov 16, 2007
IBM on Thursday announced a major initiative under which it plans to offer businesses the tools and services to create large scale, distributed computing environments that transcend geographic bounds. Under its so-called Blue Cloud program, IBM will develop virtualization tools that allow businesses to route computing tasks to areas where they can be done most efficiently, regardless of location. (EETimes)
Univa UD Launches Open Source Grid Community Nov 14, 2007
Yahoo said it will launch an open source program aimed at advancing the research and development of systems software for distributed computing. Yahoo's program will leverage its leadership in Hadoop, an open source distributed computing sub-project of the Apache Software Foundation, to let researchers modify and evaluate the systems software running on a 4,000-processor supercomputer provided by Yahoo. (eSecurityPlanet)
Needed: A new design-to-fab flow for advanced ICs Nov 14, 2007
This acceleration can be accomplished by assuring the fastest possible DRC run time using techniques such as improved data structuring, hierarchical processing, more efficient usage, multithreading and distributed computing. is particularly important today because volume microprocessor companies, such as Intel and AMD, have turned to multicore architectures to deal with runaway heat density in their products. (EETimes)
Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing Nov 13, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it would launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file system that lets users process massive amounts of data. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Yahoo Launches Open Source Nov 13, 2007
Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing ... Yahoo Sets Program to Boost Distributed Computing ... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it would launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture. (eWeek)
Lessons for studentsto kick-start careers Nov 10, 2007
A scientific research project initiated by Stanford University to help study diseases has been officially claimed as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world by Guinness World Records ... Stanford chemistry professor and Folding@Home project leader Vijay Pande said, "To have Folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the... (Asia Times Online)
Supercomputer vet joins Microsoft Research Nov 10, 2007
He was also chief architect of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid, a national distributed computing system for researchers. The move to Microsoft Research marks Reed's first job in the commercial sector. (EETimes)
Sony adds remote access to playstation 3 Nov 9, 2007
Sony's latest PS3 firmware 2. 0 update features Remote Start R E L A T E D C O N T E N T Similar articles. (VNUNet.com)
Mario Galaxy dazzles Nov 6, 2007
Sony announced the September 16 milestone has been recorded to Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network in existence. The milestone was reached again on September 23. (Inquirer)
PS3 helps Folding to record Nov 3, 2007
The leader of the folding@home distributed computing project has paid tribute to PlayStation 3 owners for helping boost the project's processing power after it was recognised by Guinness World Records ... Guinness says FAH is now the most powerful distributed computing network ever, at over a petaflop, which is a lot more (technical term) than the 250 teraflops (trillion calculations per second) on the subject points out the program managed when it was 200,000-computers-strong prior to its... (Eurogamer)
Computer disease project record Nov 3, 2007
Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network ... "To have folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the world and for that we are very grateful," said Professor Vijay Pande of Stanford University and a leader of the FAH project ... Distributed computing is a method for... (BBC News -- Health)
Folding@home Leaps Into Record Books Nov 2, 2007
November 2, 2007: Stanford Universitys Pande lab Folding@home project has been recognised as the largest distributed computing environment in the world by The Guinness Book of Records, largely thanks to support from Sony and its Playstation 3 user base ... This translates to more than a petaflop, or one thousand trillion floating point calculations per second a milestone in distributed computing that has never been achieved before ... To have Folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records... (IDM.net.au)
Digital Hollywood Fall flourishes Oct 30, 2007
His upcoming confab will be made up of 13 separate but co-located events hosted by the likes of Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent, Adobe Systems, the Distributed Computing Industry Assn. and research firm Parks Associates. Harwood, now based in New York, expects as many as 2,800 attendees at Digital Hollywood Fall, held at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and complex and the adjacent Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. (Variety)
Home Computers Help Researchers Better Understand Universe Oct 27, 2007
A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles. See also. (Science Daily)
New approach builds better proteins inside a computer Oct 18, 2007
More than 70,000 home computer users around the world were an integral part of the project, volunteering their computers to participate in the quest for protein structures through Rosetta@home, a distributed computing project that is based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. Over the past decade, Baker and his colleagues have made steady progress in developing computer algorithms to predict how a string of amino acids will fold into a given proteins... (EurekAlert!)
SDSC Does Supercomputing on Demand Oct 10, 2007
The goal of the initiative is "to improve computer science students' knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing.". IBM and Google are teaming to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research, hoping to lower the financial and logistical barriers for the academic community to explore this emerging model of computing. (eSecurityPlanet)
Google, IBM Promote Cloud Computing Oct 10, 2007
and have teamed up to offer a curriculum and support for software development on large-scale distributed computing systems, with six universities signing up so far ... October 9, 2007 Google and IBM are offering a university curriculum and support for development on large-scale distributed computing systems. (PC World)
Church voices Resistance to Sony Bafta nomination Oct 9, 2007
2 application for distributed computing project released22 Aug 2007. We know who you are and where you live. (VNUNet.com)
Google, IBM Seed the Cloud Oct 9, 2007
Google, IBM Plant Distributed Computing Seeds ... Google, IBM Plant Distributed Computing Seeds ... Computer science students are getting a chance to learn about distributed computing from two of the biggest names in high tech. (eWeek)
