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Distributedcomputing.infohttp://www.distributedcomputing.info [Distributedcomputing.info] Recentdistributed computing projects have been designed to use the computers ofhundreds of thousands of volunteers all over the world, via the Internet, tolook for extra-terrestrial radio signals, to look for prime numbers so largethat they have more than ten million digits, and to find more effectivedrugs to fight cancer and the AIDS virus. These projects are so large, andrequire so much computing power to solve, that they would be impossible forany one computer or person to solve in a reasonable amount of time.

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Sxxz.blogspot.comhttp://sxxz.blogspot.com [Sxxz.blogspot.com] Science In Action: Grid Computing: --a project developed to search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600 gravitational wave observatory in Germany. Gravitational waves are theoretically created in supernova collapses of stellar cores (which form neutron stars and black holes), collisions and coalescences of neutron stars or black holes, rotations of neutron stars with deformed crusts and the remnants of gravitational radiation created by the birth of the universe.

[Itmanagement.webopedia.com] grid computing - Webopedia.com: A well-known grid computing project is the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @Home project, in which PC users worldwide donate unused processor cycles to help the search for signs of extraterrestrial life by analyzing signals coming from outer space. The project relies on individual users to volunteer to allow the project to harness the unused processing power of the user's computer.

Techrepublic.com.com[Techrepublic.com.com] Anyone part of the home distributed computing project?:   

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