By launching the so called “World Community Grid project” IBM and its Harvard helpers hope to use the idle computer power of volunteers around the globe to help “benefit humanity”. Yet average living room PCs which, let’s face it, you probably only really use for surfing porn and playing solitaire, can actually make itself much more useful, carrying out billions of calculations a second in the name of science.
World Community Grid Burns Energy In Order To Save It
December 11, 2008