Computer Hope
Software => Computer software => Topic started by: Allochthonous on October 21, 2006, 10:55:17 AM
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Several years back, I had a friend who participated in the SETI @home project where you installed a program that downloaded data from radio telescopes, let your PC crunch the data during its idle time, and then sent the results back to the web site.
I have always thought that utilizing the power of all the millions of PC's sitting idle at any given moment to do something productive was a great concept, but although the search for extra terrestrial life is an interesting venture, I wished that there was some project that I could play a part in that would be more beneficial to mankind.
Does anyone know what I am talking about and are there any current projects such as this? Or with the advancement of processors over the past few years, is this type of project a moot point, as any individual machine could do just as well to crunch the data?
PK
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The developers of Prime95 are looking for the next prime number... Or something like that.
Mersenne Prime Search (http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm)
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Or This (http://folding.stanford.edu/)
patio. 8-)
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Or This
I was going to mention that, Folding @ Home....
The desktop runs it as it is left idle a lot
I don't run it on my laptop because I shut it down when not in use, plus I worry about heat problems running the CPU at 100% all the time may cause....yes I know you can set it to use less but still....
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I would not suggest it for any laptop...
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I have always thought that utilizing the power of all the millions of PC's sitting idle at any given moment to do something productive was a great concept
Trojans that attack micro$haft are indeed great. :P
But seriously, yeah. I remember this software from a few years ago, but unfortunately nowerdays internet providers generally make you pay for going over bandwidth limits. :|
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I have always thought that utilizing the power of all the millions of PC's sitting idle at any given moment to do something productive was a great concept
Trojans that attack micro$haft are indeed great. :P
But seriously, yeah. I remember this software from a few years ago, but unfortunately nowerdays internet providers generally make you pay for going over bandwidth limits. :|
HuH ? ? ?
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I have always thought that utilizing the power of all the millions of PC's sitting idle at any given moment to do something productive was a great concept
Trojans that attack micro$haft are indeed great. :P
But seriously, yeah. I remember this software from a few years ago, but unfortunately nowerdays internet providers generally make you pay for going over bandwidth limits. :|
HuH ? ? ?
Time to switch provider, then. :P