http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/boinc Just another bbPress community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 05:31:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/boinc#post-269391 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:59:00 +0000 Vampyros 269391@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>This sounds interesting will have to check it out.</p> <p>Vx </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/boinc#post-269369 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:40:37 +0000 Quantum Pille 269369@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>I second this! BOINC is great, and you can be a part of scientific research just by donating a tiny bit of your computer&#39;s memory for the cause.</p> <p>Right now I run SETI, but I&#39;m planning to take up other projects as well.<br /> Not sure which ones, as of yet. </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/boinc#post-248455 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:46:13 +0000 Anthony Miller 248455@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>As you&#39;re all so mad on Gadgets have you thought of downloading</p> <p><a href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://boinc.berkeley.edu/</a></p> <p>Volunteer computing is an arrangement in which people (volunteers) provide computing resources to projects, which use the resources to do distributed computing and/or storage. BOINC software allows you to use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. </p> <p>It&#39;s safe, secure, and easy... </p> <p>The Large Hadron Collider as well as LHC-related simulation will produce a total data output of 15 petabytes per year ...</p> <p>...so every little helps.</p> <p>And you never know we might find out who truly created the Universe </p>