Volunteer Computing

By Virginia Prescott on Monday, August 31, 2009.
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The term “volunteer computing” conjures an image of good-hearted people devoting hours to help those who can’t compute, or maybe populating spreadsheets for non-profits. Well, not quite. Volunteer computing lets you use your computer’s idle processing speed to do calculations for scientific research in everything from astronomy to climate change. Brady Carlson, Word of Mouth’s resident internet sherpa, is with us to explain.

Media Post: Intel Marries 'Volunteer Computing' To Facebook

A list of Volunteer Computing Projects

(Photo by Craig Rodway via Flickr/Creative Commons)

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