> You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
> more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
> its spare power
Didn't Juno attempt this 5 or 6 years ago and fall flat on its face?
Juno wanted to access a million computers while the owners
slept and create a humongous super-computer with unlimited
speed, storage, power, and every other adjective used to
describe computers.
Didn't work then, won't work today. Universities, governments,
research organizations have a billion times the power you would
every harness using your scheme.
Alex - 14 Sep 2006 07:49 GMT
>> You can personally help find a cure for cancer without spending much
>> more than a few minutes of your time to set up your computer to donate
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> research organizations have a billion times the power you would
> every harness using your scheme.
I think you mean the SETI project. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/. It uses
cycles of idling comuters in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Supercomputers could do what Web-linked distributed computing does, but
someone would have to cover the cost. Donated computer time circumvents that
issue, at no real cost to participants.
Alex