Distributed Computing

[Productivity]

Well in the linked project, the Stanford group uses it to work out how proteins work, in an attempt to understand them and how they go wrong (apparently when they go wrong they can lead to cancer/other diseases).

Essentially the computers of those involved are acting as one large highly distributed supercomputer.

The team element comes from the fact that they give out points for the work units of processing your computers complete (smart really, capitalising on human competitiveness), and a team basically just helps a community show what it is doing.

[InsaneApache]

o i c I thought you meant to do something with Total war or the org. I need a cup of tea my brain appears to have stopped working

[Pausanias828]

Although I am currently in a team, which is CustomPC, which I joined because I subscibe to the magazine, I may be willing to quit and join an .org team for Folding@home, even though CustomPC is currently number 21. I don't know how easy that is to do though, and I don't relly want to give up such a good team, unless we have a decent amount of contributing members.

I also run Seti on another pc of mine, and have done so since 1999, although I don't belong to a team, so if any seti users here want to start a team, I will be happy to join.