Also known as Distributed Computing, Grid Computing allows you to donate your spare computer processor time to research projects that require large amounts of computation power.
I first joined grid computing with Distributed.net, followed by the Seti@home
The Distributed.net application was used to brute force ‘crack’ a secret message that was encrypted. I eventually left this project when Seti@home went live. I joined on May 14, 1999. Over the years I left and rejoined the project, only to return in full force in February 2007.
Seti@Home is now one of many projects coupled with Boinc, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing client. Boinc allows you to choose from a wide range of projects that might interest you, including cancer and HIV/AIDS research to weather forecast modeling and proving mathematical theories.
I am currently in Seti@Home, Rosetta@Home and Fight Aids@Home and Help Defeat Cancer in the World Computing Grid and Climate Prediction.net . All of these run through the Boinc software.
You can create or join an existing team in each of the projects.
So, if you have spare computing power and want to donate that idle time to worthwhile projects, take a look at Boinc. You might just help discover a cure for Aids, find extraterrestrial life, or prove a mathematical theory.
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