Yahoo has announced a program to encourage the development of software around distributed computing. The open source program will see Yahoo push work around Hadoop -- an environment that enables its ...

Intel has announced a new partnership designed to increase the prominence of volunteer grid computing. Its new Progress Through Processors program will see the chipmaker partner with Facebook and ...

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As you read this sentence, millions of personal computers around the world are working overtime – performing complex computations on their screensavers in the name of science. This growing Internet ...

Distributed computing erupted onto the scene in 1999 with the release of SETI@home, a nifty program and screensaver (back when people still used those) that sifted through radio telescope signals for ...

Microsoft has released a PowerShell script that allows you to quickly start donating your CPU cycles to the Folding@Home project by deploying the program in the Windows 10 Sandbox. The Folding@home ...

Motion graphics artist Gavin Shapiro thinks art needs to be a lot less serious. In his three-minute film Wingin' It, dancing pink flamingos and swaying penguins flit across the walls and floor in high ...

With Render Network, filmmakers in Artechouse's Submerge exhibit in NYC can tap into massive GPU power—turning highly ambitious concepts into vivid reality. I'm the Executive Editor, Features & ...