A group of California computer scientists has built a tool for analyzing climate change, mapping clean water access, and formulating strategies to eradicate malaria, cancer, and AIDS, all using a ...

Being middleware, BOINC isn’t nearly as well known as some of the grid computing-based volunteer projects – like SETI@home and Rosetta@home — that exploit it. But the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for ...

Supercomputers are an essential part of modern science. By crunching numbers and performing calculations that would take eons for us humans to complete by ourselves, they help us do things that would ...

The Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley is nestled into the Berkeley Hills just off the fire trail where runners from around the area come to take on the brutal 3.5 ...

If you’d like to volunteer for a good cause — or several good causes at once — consider volunteer computing. Heralded in the late ‘90s as a future-changing technology and summarily forgotten by the ...

Researchers in Taiwan are planning to use volunteer computing to visualize the motion of earthquakes after they occur. They hope this will cut the time of creating 'shake movies' from a few hours to ...

Ordinary computers like those folks use to send eMail or surf the internet are being credited with finding a previously unknown neutron star, highlighting the changing nature of research in the era of ...

Over at the ISC Blog, Ad Emmen from Genias Benelux writes about the possibility of building an Exascale computer using volunteer computing. If we adopt this simplistic view, you can reach Exascale ...

Folding@Home, the distributed computing project that’s taking on COVID, cancer, and all kinds of other diseases through the power of unused graphic cards and idle CPU cores, has been in the headlines ...

WAY back in 1999, a badge of geek pride was to run a new screensaver program called SETI@home. This used spare processing capacity on ordinary PCs to sift through radio-telescope data for signs of ...