BOINC - Donate your computer's idle time for research!

[Pyritie]

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

Just something cool I found. It donates your computer's idle time and excess memory you're not using to help with research. Supercomputers are very expensive and we have all this computer power that's going to waste. So why not do it for charity?

Yeah I know I sound like a desperate salesman.

I'm doing the project called rosetta@home, which is mapping out proteins to find causes of diseases.

 

[Instant Ramen]

I love this program!!! I'm looking for extraterrestrial life.

 

[Mechanical Man]

Nice for those who leave the computer opened at night to download porn. But I am a bit skeptical how could my tiny amount of memory help those huge computers which are incomparable in strength with mine.

 

[Instant Ramen]

Nice for those who leave the computer opened at night to download porn. But I am a bit skeptical how could my tiny amount of memory help those huge computers which are incomparable in strength with mine.

It's meant for huge numbers of idle computers. Eventually all of that idle time adds up.

 

[brad.dude03]

Yeah, a tiny bit of CPU usage, spread across tens (or hundreds) of thousands computers certainly adds up, without all that costly business of supercomputing. SETI is a worthwhile endeavour, though Rosetta@home is perhaps more useful in the short-term.

 

[Hakeem]

I'm doing the large number factoring one.
Of course, if my computer gets the range that has the number, I wont report it, I'll use it to my own malicious intent.
At least until there's a better way.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i know there is a similar project for your PS3

 

[~Void~]

I'm finding pulsars! >