Would you install a program on your computer that tries to find a cure for a disease (distributed computing)?
Be this finding a cure for cancer, searching for alien lifeforms (SETI@Home) or trying to crack the next big mathematical code (RC5-72).
Would you put your computer to use for these kind of projects?
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I started again, when I found out that the Playstation 3 is very capable of helping out with the Folding@home project, being ultimately more suitable to do those calculations than a PC is. Now, whenever my Playstation 3 is not used for playing games or watching movies, it goes to stand-by, folding away in the background.
I never tried the SETI@Home as I somehow feel that one is quite futile. I have resorted to 'human distributed computing' too lately, by spending some time doing proofreading tasks at http://www.pgdp.net/c/. It feels good putting that excess free time to good use..
All in all, these Distributed Computing programs are very cool, especially for people like me, whose main motivations are statistics and leaderboards :)
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