Distributed Computing | Reference Information, Resources & Projects

Distributed & Networked Computing Reference & Resources

Berkeley Network of Workstations (NOW) project
The Berkeley Network of Workstations (NOW) project uses the power of clustered machines connected via high-speed switched networks.

Computer Networking Portal | Wikipedia
Special information portal section at Wikipedia on computer networking including reference information, data, articles, photos, and news.

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

Grid Computing Information Centre (GRID)
The Grid Computing Information Centre promotes the development of systems and technologies that provide seamless and scalable access to wide-area distributed resources such as supercomputers, computer clusters, storage systems, data sources, instruments, and people

Open Science Grid (OSG)
The Open Science Grid (OSG) is a multi-disciplinary partnership for local, regional, community and national cyber-infrastructures designed to meet the needs of research and academic communities by advancing science through open distributed computing.

Related Publications

Distributed Computing
The international journal Distributed Computing provides a forum for original and significant contributions to the theory, design, specification and implementation of distributed systems

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Distributed Computing Efforts You Can Contribute To

BOINC | Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Open source platform and software for volunteer computing and grid computing. Contribute to existing efforts or develop your own distributed computing project.

Climate Prediction
Climateprediction.net is a large experiment trying to produce a forecast of the climate in the 21st century.

Distributed Computing Environment (DCE)
Open source distributed computing environment

Einstein@Home
Einstein@Home uses computer time donated by computer owners all over the world to process data from gravitational wave detectors.

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

Galaxy Zoo
More than 200,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries

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

MilkyWay@Home
The MilkyWay@Home project processes data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to better understand the layout of our Milky Way galaxy. Part of the BOINC network of @Home projects

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

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