How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power
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Vodafone backs smartphone-based distributed computing for cancer research
Vodafone Australia's charity organisation, the Vodafone Foundation, has partnered with The Garvan Institute of Medical Research for a distributed computing initiative to help fight cancer.
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Spare CPU cycles to be used to further radio astronomy
PC users around the world will today be asked to contribute spare CPU cycles as part of theSkyNet project to further the science of radio astronomy.
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Microsoft's Dryad technology to take on Google's MapReduce
Addressing the growing market for tools that handle very large data sets, Microsoft has released a beta set of technologies, called Dryad, to manage and analyze large amounts of information across a cluster of Windows Servers.
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BMC buys GridApp for cloud database automation
BMC Software announced Friday it has purchased GridApp Systems, maker of software tools for database provisioning, patching and management in physical and cloud deployments. Terms were not disclosed.
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ViFiB wants you to host cloud computing at home
French hosting company ViFiB thinks it can save on expensive data center space by placing its servers in homes and offices with broadband Internet access, putting it somewhere between cloud computing services such as Amazon Web Services and distributed computing projects such as SETI@home.
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How you can help the LHC and 12 other ways to donate your PC's spare processing power
Contribute to projects including the LHC, climate forecasting, projects that benefit humanity, target disease cures and more.