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Distributed Computing

If you've never heard of this term, never fear, you're probably already familiar with the concept. The basic idea is that you download software agents which take advantage of the excess processing power of your computer to work on various work units which comprise a part of a problem. Millions of people do this, and so in effect act as a worldwide supercomputer which can provide solutions to whatever the problem is many orders of time quicker than a few single though more powerful computers. Probably the most well known of these is SETI@home, where packets of received signals are analysed for evidence of extra-terrestrial life. There is already a h2g2 researchers group, which can be joined here. There are others, however, which have a different aim, and probably (for me, anyway) the most important of these are the medical projects. So far I've found three which seem quite good. They are Folding@home, which is a project working with protein folding, a key component in many diseases including alzheimers. If you decide to contribute please join in h2g2 researchers folding team 2879, set up by silverfish. United Devices is another of the same sort, currently working on such things as cancer research. Again, I have created a team called h2g2team, if you decide to download the UD agent, go here to join my team. The final one I have to tell you about is FightAIDS@home, which is involved in what it says. Again I have set up a team named h2g2team, to join simply download the Entropia agent and in the members settings page specify 'h2g2team' as your team name.