The Folding@home distributed computing project is now utilizing donated CPU cycles to research the Coronavirus (COVID-19) virus. Folding@home is a project founded by Pande Lab at Stanford University ...

A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worthy cause. The object is called a disrupted binary ...

A measure of how a given piece of code or the entire application is performing is to look at the average number of cycles that are needed to retire an instruction. This is an indication of how much ...

The annual Usenix security symposium is a gathering place for all kinds of ideas: those on how to stop security flaws and those about what kinds of new security issues may emerge in the future. A neat ...