Wanna cure cancer?

When you need massive amounts of computer power you have two routes, get huge million dollar supercomputers and let them crank out results or get millions of 1000 dollar computers to do the work.

There are many distributed applications but this one is not only the best one from an application stand point but it is used to try and cure cancer/smallpox. It uses your spare CPU, it runs in low priority so it uses 100% of your processor without you even knowing its running. For us laptop people it senses when you go on battery and stops running. You can configure it to only run at certain times. (A nice feature, especially for us laptoppers because programs like this make laptops hot, so i tell it to only run at night and while im at work and it's all good while im using it)

Another cool thing about this program is that it is a fairly generic program, that is others like it (Folding@Home or SETI) only do one thing, this one can have projects added to it at anytime without you having to do anything. So, in theory, they could add AIDS in the mix without having to change anything.

I set up a team for page 3, lets see what we can contribute.

ps As a lame stats whore hack I should point out that points are figured by factoring in how good of a computer you are letting them use, one of the things you can control is how much hard drive space it is allowed to use. Currently none of the projects use any hard drive space so you can get more points by alloting bigger space on your hard drive, you can always take it away later.

Bottom line is you should let them use your computer, especially while you arent using it. Please let them use you computer.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WHAT IS THE HOLD UP? Your not using it! He said he'd wash the sheets.