Have you heard of the Venus and boinc projects? search for them and see what we can all do.
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/wiki/index.php?title=BOINC
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
get informed mate ;)
sincerely,
LSonic
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The reference to the BOINC project didn't work for me. However, I have found a BOINC project that serves a a good introduction to BOINC:
World Community Grid
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp
Click on each of the pictures under the big picture to see all their current subprojects, some of which should help mostly people in poverty. I've given them years of computer time already.
A few more BOINC projects of interest:
http://www.malariacontrol.net/
for malaria
http://dnahome.cs.rpi.edu/dna/
for tuberculosis, but early in development so I recommend it only for those with experience in testing new software
http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/
likely to help with research on RNA-based viruses, but not giving much detail yet; not quite so early in development but still not recommended for beginners
I'd recommend selecting at least two BOINC projects so your computer can still do useful work if one of the projects goes down for a while.
BOINC is used mainly when some research project needs much more computer time than the computers they can afford can deliver within a reasonable time.
Robert Miles
