From searching for alien life to working out cancer's protein structures to seeking cores for orphan and rare diseases, distributed computing programs can put your idle computers to good work.

Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? There seems to be much less excitement about distributed computing these days.

Distributed computing allowed these researchers to efficiently share the computational load between giant mainframes and individual workstations, even if those machines came from different ...

Folding@home Scientists Report First Distributed Computing Success Date: October 22, 2002 Source: Stanford University Summary: As you read this sentence, millions of personal computers around the ...

In case you haven't noticed, distributed computing is hard. The problem is that it is becoming increasingly important in the world of enterprise application development.

This hierarchical computing will be distributed locally and run serial up and down the line, so it is not, in the strict way that we are talking about it, distributed computing across the whole.

Zennet to Pay for Distributed Computing With Blockchain Tech Zennet promises to bring decentralisation and supercomputing together, enabling people to charge for their unused CPU and GPU cycles.

Distributed computing is an excellent idea. We have a huge network of computers, many of them always on, why not take advantage of that when the user isn’t?

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...