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  • DCcentral - Introduction to distributed computing in English, French, or Spanish. Includes tutorials, history, and projects.
  • Albatross - Wide Area Cluster Computing - A project to better understand application behavior on wide-area networks. Publications, talks, software, status.
  • An Eye on Grid Technology - Grid computing and grid services portal featuring articles, papers, news and streaming media content.
  • Cetus Links: Distributed Objects and Components - Over a thousand links organized by the volunteer members of the Cetus organization.
  • Distributed Computing Primer - Introduction to organising a distributed computing project.
  • Distributed Computing: An Introduction - 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.
  • Distributed Systems - Descriptions, bibliographies, and links to distributed operating systems, file systems, and computing environments.
  • Flash Mob Computing - Home of the first Flash Mob Supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing.
  • IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing - The Task Force is concerned with issues related to the design, analysis, development and implementation of cluster-based systems.
  • Jeff Sutherland's Object Technology Site - Breaking news on distributed computing, object technology, components, and business objects.
  • Mobile Information and Communication Systems - Research on self organizing mobile ad hoc networking technology and infrastructure. Project proposals and publications.
  • Open Grid Forum (OGF) - A community-initiated forum of individual researchers and practitioners working on distributed computing, or "grid" technologies.
  • The DC Zone - 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.
  • The Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS) - An experimental wide-area distributed computing cluster used for parallel computing research at five Dutch universities.
  • The Israeli Association of Grid Technologies (IGT) - 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.
  • Is Distributed Computing a Crime? - Computer network administrator faces multiple felony charges and years in prison for allegedly installing Distributed.net clients without permission. [SecurityFocus]
  • Distributed computing gets a corporate twist - "Grid" technology has largely been an academic phenomenon, but IBM gives the idea a corporate twist with its Grid Computing Initiative. [CNet News] (August, 2001)
  • Distributed.outrage - University computer administrator accused of "hacking" crimes, for installing a screensaver that supported distributed computing research. [Salon] (July 17, 2001)
  • Kasparov Goes Bigger than Blue - 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]

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