Computer program for science projects...

[I_luv_saber]

I thought this was pretty interesting:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

The general idea being, that while your computer is idle, but still connected to the net (as I tend to do with mine oh-so often) you devote your computer's resources to help with science projects such as climate prediction, analysis of protein structures, SETI, etc. To my understanding, the way it works is:

1) Your PC connects to the net and downloads work.
2) PC completes the work
3) PC sends it back and takes another workload. (in the process deleting the old workload, so as not to muddle up your harddrive with junk)

You can set how much of your computers resources is used, and when to consider your computer idle.

I thought it was a neat idea, so I'm gonna give it a test run. Any thoughts?

[noodle]

I thought this was pretty interesting:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php

The general idea being, that while your computer is idle, but still connected to the net (as I tend to do with mine oh-so often) you devote your computer's resources to help with science projects such as climate prediction, analysis of protein structures, SETI, etc. To my understanding, the way it works is:

1) Your PC connects to the net and downloads work.
2) PC completes the work
3) PC sends it back and takes another workload. (in the process deleting the old workload, so as not to muddle up your harddrive with junk)

You can set how much of your computers resources is used, and when to consider your computer idle.

I thought it was a neat idea, so I'm gonna give it a test run. Any thoughts?

it works fine, and this concept is decades old. i participated in one around 10 years ago, for a few months until the computer i used it on died.