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Distributive Computing

LAST UPDATED: 22 May 2006 05:04:26 +0200

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What is Distributive computing? Distributive computing or Distributed computing is a science which solves a large problem by giving small parts of the problem to many computers to solve and then combining the solutions for the parts into a solution for the problem. Recent distributed computing projects have been designed to use the computers of hundreds of thousands of volunteers all over the world, via the Internet, to look for extra-terrestrial radio signals, to look for prime numbers so large that they have more than ten million digits, and to find more effective drugs to fight cancer and the AIDS virus. These projects are so large, and require so much computing power to solve, that they would be impossible for any one computer or person to solve in a reasonable amount of time.

Is your computer on all of the time, but not doing anything? Then Help Us help with several projects (from our Sister Site - Wolfsburg II):

All three of these require the use of BONIC program from University of California at Berkley.

SETI - BONIC - Look for radio evidence of extraterrestrial life

Einstein - BONIC - search for gravitational signals emitted by pulsars

Predictor - Bonic - investigate protein-related diseases

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