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This is something rather unrelated to robotics, but for anyone interested in it, World Community Grid is a program that runs off of spare CPU usage. The intention of this program is to create a global grid of computers all dedicated to the better understanding of human diseases. The current projects include: Muscular dystrophy, Genome Comparison, Human protein folding, Cancer, and AIDS.

If your interested the link is <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/">http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/</a><!-- m -->

Interesting Kyle. The only distributed computing project I knew about was Folding @ Home, which uses extra CPU power on computers to calculate how proteins work to try to figure out their roll in diseases.

These distributed computer programs are all derived from the original distributed computing project, SETI@home, which searched for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

All of these programs are interesting in their operation. I think it is pretty neat that people can run these programs.

These projects are trying to make it in the news right now because they want people to install the software on their PS3's. The new PS3 core processor has more power than a PC's CPU. 10,000 PS3's can do as many calculations as 200,000 PC's.