On September 24, 2007, the distributed computing project "Folding@home," led by Stanford University, achieved a total processing performance of 1 PFLOPS (petaflops: 1 quadrillion floating-point ...

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A special project to accelerate the hunt for a cure for anthrax by harnessing PCs around the globe using a distributed computing model was unveiled today. In an announcement today, the National ...

I've been wondering about this for some time. It's been years since the first massive distributed computing project. We have "searched for signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence", attempted to find ...

Stanford University’s Folding@home distributed computing project has seen its capacity more than double in the last month, thanks to the addition of idle processor cycles from hundreds of thousands of ...

I think it's just a victim of the times. Spiking electric rates in much of the US, with no wage growth means people have to cut back. Now combine that with obscene GPU costs for replacement hardware ...