Distributed Computing Reference & Projects

Distributed Computing Reference

Efforts You Can Contribute To

See Also: Supercomputing

Distributed Computing Reference

DC Central Distributed Computing
Introduction to the basic concept, a look at distributed computing's history, a tour through its inner workings, and a visit to some successful and popular projects that have made use of distributed computing's unprecedented power

DCE Distributed Computing Environment
Open source distributed computing environment provided by the Open Group

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Distributed Computing Efforts You Can Contribute To

BOINC
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) open source platform

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
Open source distributed computing environment

Folding@home
The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery

List of Distributed Computing Projects
Ongoing distributed computing projects list compiled at Wikipedia

SETI@home - Search for Extreterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
A scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

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