Archive for July, 2007

Distributed Computing for Good

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Most screen savers just waste power. Might as well just put your computer to sleep. But if you want to use a screen saver and you want to do something good for humanity then check out one of these:
fightaidsathome.scripps.edu – Join more than 300,000 other computing nodes and dedicate your computing power to finding new AIDS treatments
climateprediction.net – Improve climate prediction models with the University of Oxford
mersenne.org – Help George Woltman be the first to find a 10 million-digit prime
einstein.phys.uwm.edu – Test Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves