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2 unusual facts about Distributed computing


HadCM3

This is the model behind PRECIS (Providing Regional Climates for Impacts Studies) as well as being the atmosphere component of the distributed computing project Climateprediction.net.

William J. Kaiser

The applications for this technology that his group has pursued include distributed systems for factory automation, biomedical research, healthcare, space science, security, and defense.


Cell Computing

Cell Computing is a now-defunct distributed computing project that was operated by NTT Data to perform biomedical research.

Google Toolbar

Google Compute was a separately downloadable add-on for the Google Toolbar which utilized the user's computer to help the Folding@home distributed computing project, which studies disease-relevant protein folding and other molecular dynamics.

Pradeep Khosla

From January 1994 to August 1996 Khosla was on leave from CMU and served as Program Manager at DARPA, where he managed a $50M portfolio of programs in real-time systems, internet-enabled software infrastructure, intelligent systems, and distributed systems.

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USA) and Daniel Gebhardt (Universitaet Mainz, Musikinformatik, Germany) via the distributed computing project Einstein@Home.

Web desktop

The terms "web desktop" and "webtop" are distinct from web operating system, a network operating system such as TinyOS or distributed operating system such as Inferno.


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Andrew Herbert

As part of his ANSA work, Herbert played an active role in many standards and consortia for distributed computing including TINA-C, RM-ODP, OSF DCE and OMG CORBA.

Fiocruz Genome Comparison Project

This, along with the likely humanitarian benefits of the research, has led the World Community Grid (a distributed computing grid that uses idle computer clock time) to run the Fiocruz project.

K. Mani Chandy

He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems, including the eponymous BCMP networks.

Microsoft Research Labs

Microsoft Live Labs, an applied research group that focuses on internet products and services, including natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, computational linguistics, and distributed computing

NewLISP

It also provides the functions expected of a modern scripting language, including support for regular expressions, XML, Unicode (UTF-8), TCP/IP and UDP networking, matrix and array processing, advanced math, statistics and Bayesian statistical analysis, financial mathematics, and distributed computing support.

SHA-1

To that end, a collision search for SHA-1 using the distributed computing platform BOINC began August 8, 2007, organized by the Graz University of Technology.