World Community Grid

"World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.

Simply donate the time your computer is turned on, but would normally lie idle, for projects that benefit humanity. Like a screensaver, grid technology is easy to use, safe and free. When you are ready to use your computer, the grid software will shut itself off until the next time your computer is idle."

Have you got a powerful PC? Lots of us have quite powerful machines these days. Many people put alot of work and cash into building these monster machines mainly for gaming, with lots of ram, fast video cards, and also very fast CPUs... Why not put some of that number crunching power to work when your not using your computer?
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