Category Archives: Communities

I saw this on BBC News 24 a couple of days ago. The Beeb is linking to the climateprediction.net project (more about the project). This is great news for the awareness of grid computing as the BBC has a huge … Continue reading →

The largest known prime number, a 9.1 million-digit figure, has been found using a grid of computers by researchers at Central Missouri State University. It took all 70,000 computers 10 months to make this find. I read the story at … Continue reading →

Currently the World Community Grid doesn’t include a Mac version (see why is there not a Mac version). Hopefully, this will change in early 2006. However, a similar grid computing programme is running at Stanford. If you want to use … Continue reading →

If you have a Windows or Linux machine put its idle time to good use by joining The World Community Grid, a not-for-profit endeavor. Linking the unused processing power of many individual computers creates a large system with massive computational … Continue reading →