World Community Grid

[ESPNSTI]

Some of you might be familiar with http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ which uses your "idle computer time" to search for aliens, but I was just made aware of something that's perhaps less of a pipe dream.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org is a similar concept to setiathome, but it uses your "idle computer time" to do scientific research instead.

 

[MXM]

There's a lot of distributed computing projects going on like this. SETI is just most known one. There was a human genome project, and as far as I know it ended succesfully. Some of them search for answers to scientific problems, mathematic, cryptographic, financial... the list continues. Like climate prediction, or cure for some illness or simply cracking codes to satellite channels crypt system

Then there even was "Distributed Shakespeare Monkey Project", which is based on the theory that if you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare. Dunno if that actually started thou

Just found this, a lot of info on different projects if you're interested:
http://www.aspenleaf.com/distributed/distrib-projects.html

 

[ESPNSTI]

Then there even was "Distributed Shakespeare Monkey Project", which is based on the theory that if you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare. Dunno if that actually started thou l

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[bigfoot1942]

Then there even was "Distributed Shakespeare Monkey Project", which is based on the theory that if you have enough monkeys banging randomly on typewriters, they will eventually type the works of William Shakespeare. Dunno if that actually started thou l

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

i read about it a while ago:
it worked till a certain extend: they got 19 characters right in a row... that was the record.