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Volunteers Put PCs to Work for Science

'Volunteer Computing' creates quick – and cheap – supercomputers for science

By Jim O'Neill,  Newser User

Posted Dec 25, 2007 2:44 PM CST

(Newser) – While you sleep, your home PC can forge new worlds in science. More researchers across the nation are embracing the concept of volunteer computing—in which they harness the power of otherwise sleeping computers to speed up the mathematical grunt work of their projects, the...   Read full story »

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