IBM last month released 10 grid products. If the Smallpox Research Grid can round up 2 million participants, the collective computing power could be as high as 1.1 petaflops, or 1.1 quadrillion ...

quote: IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate antismallpox drugs ...

Potential participants can download a screensaver at Grid.org. IBM is providing back-end infrastructure to the effort, including more than one of its top-end p690 "Regatta" servers, ...

IBM is building the world's fastest supercomputer to simulate one of the great mysteries in biology: how proteins assemble themselves. But a modest screensaver running on ordinary PCs has beaten ...