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I just read about an interesting project that is utilizing the power of people's idle computers to help find a cure for smallpox. You can download a screen saver from http://www.grid.org that runs whenever your computer has resources to spare to perform computations for the project (sifting through millions of molecular combinations in hopes of finding one that fights smallpox after infection). When you connect back to the internet, the computer is supposed to send data back to a central hub and get another assignment. They said in the article that the combined power of 2 million personal computers (which is what they're hoping to get) is 30 times greater than the fastest supercomputer! It might be worth checking out ...
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