Open Directory - Computers: Computer Science: Distributed Computing
See also: This category in other languages: - Introduction to distributed computing in English, French, or Spanish. Includes tutorials, history, and projects. - A project to better understand application behavior on wide-area networks. Publications, talks, software, status. - Grid computing and grid services portal featuring articles, papers, news and streaming media content. - Introduction to organising a distributed computing project. - Descriptions, bibliographies, and links to distributed operating systems, file systems, and computing environments. - Home of the first Flash Mob Supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing. - Breaking news on distributed computing, object technology, components, and business objects. - Research on self organizing mobile ad hoc networking technology and infrastructure. Project proposals and publications. - A community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. - A growing distributed computing community, currently focused on Folding@Home, Find-a-Drug, Grid.org, World Community Grid, and DIMES, though open to other projects. - An experimental wide-area distributed computing cluster used for parallel computing research at five Dutch universities. - The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) The IGT is a non-profit organization of leading vendors, ISVs, customers and academia, focused on knowledge sharing and networking for developing Enterprise Grid solutions. It is open, independent and vendor-neutral. - Computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission. [SecurityFocus] (December 20, 2001) - "Grid" technology has largely been an academic phenomenon, but IBM gives the idea a corporate twist with its Grid Computing Initiative. [CNet News] (August 01, 2001) - World chess champion Garry Kasparov, famous for tangling with IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer, takes on the world. His latest game uses distributed computing to connect any challenger. By Joyce Slaton. [Wired] (June 10, 1999)