Use your computer FOR SCIENCE!

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Just wanted to know what you all think about this. I am doing this when i get a better computer. Hey, after cures are found you can honestly say "I helped cure (Insert disease)."

reply to post by TsukiLunar


It;s good to see projects like this, especially when scientists and their teams are always needing more funding and resources.

This is abit like BOINC, the same server client people use to connect to SETI, although apart from SETI there are many other projects you are able to volunteer resources to -

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.


boinc.berkeley.edu...

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Thanks for sharing i love hearing about these types of projects.


Edit to add - how are these for some stats, that's alot of computing power

Active: 286,939 volunteers, 421,774 computers.
24-hour average: 5.299 PetaFLOPS.
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reply to post by Havick007


Thanks for telling me about the BOINC one.

Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research.

This sounds good too. I might give it a try at some point. This is all a very cool and simple way to partipate in extending human knowledge.

Thanks for posting!

I feel this has been overlooked. It really is an interesting system.

So... bump.