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Go on try it, it will make you feel all warm and gooey inside...

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

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Originally posted by Simonm
Go on try it, it will make you feel all warm and gooey inside...

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Similar idea as Seti@home: distributed computing. There are others too, but I believe that Seti is the largest. Seti reports running at 65.14 TeraFLOPs/sec for the last 24 hours, so distributed computing has great potential.

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SETI may be bigger, but you don't get quite the same warm fuzzy feeling searching for life as you do saving it

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Also the SETI one gives you a rather naff client that shows rather dull graphs where as the grid gives you a bright shiney client that shows pretty pictures of the protiens you're folding.... (thats the only current project but ther will be more!)