Researchers at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute are building a prototype of a system that will address the problem of data overload by automating scientific workflows. The $13.8 million Windward project aims ...

More than 40,000 PlayStation 3 users have joined Stanford's Folding@home project, which breaks up tough protein simulations and distributes the pieces to thousands of far flung computers. The purpose is to be able to do simulations of bigger clu...

An international scientific collaboration has managed to whittle down the equivalent of 420 years of work on a single PC to no more than four months, with the use of Grid computing. The project, dubbed WISDOM (World-wide In Silico Docking On Malar...

Good to be part of the crew, Hoelder1in! I had to take a byzantine path to get here. The first step involved quietening one of my desktops with quality components so I wouldn't go insane if I left it on continously. Then there was the partitioning of my hard drive to dual boot XP and Linux. Before, my Linux partition was tiny, barely enough ...