How can something be valuable and yet so plentiful. That’s the question I’m faced with related to computing power. I’ve been thinking about distributed computing and how any kind of economy can be derived from it. It becomes clear quickly that no one is going to get rich from this kind of [...]
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Nothing for Money
April 12, 2007Buy and Sell Jolt Power (Distributed Computing)
April 3, 2007Yesterday I wrote about Folding@Home and how spare computer cycles can potentially make a big difference in research. I’ve be running the client on my home PC for a little while and have already come up with some other ideas.
If computer clusters (distributed computing) can figure out the dynamics of folding proteins, what else [...]
A Cause That Meets a Need
April 2, 2007For a number of years I have been thinking that it is a waste to have computers turned on at home with nothing for them to do. Of course, they do work at getting email, virus check, and backup tasks when no one is there. However, for the most part, the CPU cycles are [...]
