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Volunteer computing
the ultimate cloud
Computers continue to get faster exponentially, but the computational demands of science are growing even faster. Extreme requirements arise in at least three areas.
Volunteer computing
the ultimate cloud
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Pointers
A distributed computing project to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases
http://folding.stanford.edu
Workshop to discuss challenges in the cloud computing paradigm, including the design, implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds; Boston, Mass., 22 June 2010
http://www.usenix.org/events/hotcloud10
The 4th ACM SIGOPS/SIGACT Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware, held in conjunction with PODC in Zürich, Switzerland, 28-29 July 2010.
http://ladisworkshop.org/
A scientific, distributed computing experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the search of extraterrestrial intelligence
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
Jargon
infrastructure-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing
platform-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing
software-as-a-service, as it relates to cloud computing
solid-state disk