- Salon: Distributed.outrage - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/07/17/screensaver/index.html
University computer administrator accused of "hacking" crimes, for installing a screensaver that supported distributed computing research.
- Distributed Systems - http://www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de/DOSinWWW/DistribSys.html
Descriptions, bibliographies, and links to distributed operating systems, file systems, and computing environments.
- N-Tier Distributed Computing Portal - http://N-Tier.com
This Portal is intended to be a resource for information, including articles and links, relating to the increasingly popular "N-Tier" model of distributed computing.
- Global Grid Forum - http://www.gridforum.org/
The Global Grid Forum (GGF) is a community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies. GGF is the result of a merger of the Grid Forum, the eGrid European Grid Forum, and the Grid community in Asia-Pacific.
- Distributed computing gets a corporate twist - Tech News - CNET.com - http://news.com.com/2100-1001-270988.html?legacy=cnet
"Grid" technology, which distributes computing jobs and databases across numerous servers, has largely been an academic phenomenon. But on Thursday IBM plans to give the idea a corporate twist with its so-called Grid Computing Initiative.
- Distributed Computing: An Introduction - http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3428,a=25002,00.asp
From global distributed projects like Seti@Home to corporate uses behind the firewall, we cover the fundamentals of distributed computing architectures, discuss major initiatives and applications, and talk about the challenges that lay ahead.
- Next-gen Distributed Computing - http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/04/01/020401febctci.xml
If your large enterprise is like most, about 10 percent of your available CPU cycles actually gets used -- a fact that is driving enterprises to deploy the next generation of cost-reducing distributed computing architectures.
- IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing - http://www.ieeetfcc.org/
The Task Force is concerned with issues related to the design, analysis, development and implementation of cluster-based systems.
- QUALCOMM | BREW Home - http://www.qualcomm.com/brew/?CMP=KA11515
The BREW solution provides the necessary tools and value-added services to developers, device manufacturers and wireless operators for application development and distribution, device configuration, and billing and payment.
- Flash Mob Computing - http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
Home of the first Flash Mob Supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing.
- Wired News - Kasparov Goes Bigger than Blue - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,20124,00.html
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.
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