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BBC tunes in to grid computing
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 audience both on TV and online. It’s also good news for the climate, I guess. [...]
Grid Discovers Huge Prime Number
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 Internetnews.com and a couple of lines in the article are particularly interesting. Working alone, it [...]
Grid computing for Mac users
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 your Mac, check out folding@home
Join the World Community Grid
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 power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. “In 2003, with grid [...]
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