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14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time
discovermagazine.com — Between YouTube videos, your processor can search for a cure for AIDS, process data from the Large Hadron Collider, or use evolution to find ever more breathtaking fractal paintings.
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- a10webb, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Pretty cool list. The only ones I knew of were SETI@home and the climate prediction one. I'll definitely be using more of those.
- jcorn1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2dugg.
- shapattack, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3I had no idea there were so many out there. Still on the fence about draining the electricity, though.
- jmpeagle, on 02/07/2008, -0/+2many Playstation 3's were preloaded with the Folding@home software by Sony
http://www.theelectroniceconomist.com/science/tq/d ...
"The next logical step for the Stanford team was to adapt their software for the hugely powerful Cell processor used in Sony's PlayStation 3 games console. This chip, developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM, also turns out to work well for the Stanford protein-folding program. With Sony solidly behind this project—even preloading Folding@home on to some PlayStations—adoption has taken off fast. Sony's motivation is not just philanthropic: for some young gamers, the fact that their machine will do serious science in its spare time is a useful argument to convince reluctant parents. Such is the power of the Cell chip that in less than a year the PlayStation has become the dominant source of processing power for the project, despite much larger numbers of contributing PCs."
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