Anyone here run a distributed computing project? If TosaInu allows, would anyone be interested in forming a TotalWar.org team?
For those who don't know, distributed computing takes unused CPU cycles, and uses them for whatever the program tells them to do. Essentially rather than paying for time on a supercomputer, people donate their own spare computer cycles. As far as I can tell on my computers it runs seamlessly, and as soon as a program requests CPU power the distributed computing program releases it to the program.
There are a number of different projects running, the largest (and in my view most worth) is the Folding@Home project, which uses the spare cpu cycles to replicate how proteins fold or misfold in the human body, which directly relates to cancer.
There are other projects, there is a SETI one, one which is attempting to use the power of distributed computing to brute force past 128bit passwords (all that has proven so far is that it can't be done) and others.
So anyone interested?
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