Some popular ones: http://folding.stanford.edu/ for protein folding research to cure diseases. http://www.mersenne.org/ for prime number search to improve cryptography. http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ for pattern searching satellite data in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
There's a big (actually, huge) list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects If the link domain ends in .edu then they're from an American university and are probably safe. 2009/2/16 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > This may not be a purely Linux question but I have a feeling that someone > would have some advice. > My windows computer often spends a lot of time in idleness, > Does anybody know of a distributed computing screensaver so that I can put > my computers idle moments to work for the good of all humanity. > I am particually interested in anything to do with curing deseases, bio > chemistry, machines / engineering > I am scared of downloading troajaned software though > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
