I actually saw this a long time ago and wanted to contribute but forgot about it. I was reading an article on wired tonight(Citizen Scientists Make First Deep Space Discovery With Einstein@Home | Wired Science | Wired.com) that mentioned the program and I quickly signed up before I forgot.
Basically it's a little app that runs in your background and when your computer is idle or using no resources this app will run and act as part of a supercomputer to do things like break down physics questions, search outter space, look for cures to diseases, and other cool shit.
Also, it isn't annoying at all and it doesn't fuck with your computer at all while you're using it. But when you go AFK it takes some of your juice for a good cause unless you pause the program.
Check it out: Einstein@Home
You can also opt-in and choose where you want your computing resources to go. I chose these three:
Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research for more information). Please join us in our efforts! Rosetta@home is not for profit.
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
D-Wave's AQUA (Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms) is a research project whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques. You can participate by running a free program on your computer.
Basically it's a little app that runs in your background and when your computer is idle or using no resources this app will run and act as part of a supercomputer to do things like break down physics questions, search outter space, look for cures to diseases, and other cool shit.
Also, it isn't annoying at all and it doesn't fuck with your computer at all while you're using it. But when you go AFK it takes some of your juice for a good cause unless you pause the program.
Check it out: Einstein@Home
You can also opt-in and choose where you want your computing resources to go. I chose these three:
Rosetta@home needs your help to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of proteins in research that may ultimately lead to finding cures for some major human diseases. By running the Rosetta program on your computer while you don't need it you will help us speed up and extend our research in ways we couldn't possibly attempt without your help. You will also be helping our efforts at designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's (See our Disease Related Research for more information). Please join us in our efforts! Rosetta@home is not for profit.
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
D-Wave's AQUA (Adiabatic QUantum Algorithms) is a research project whose goal is to predict the performance of superconducting adiabatic quantum computers on a variety of hard problems arising in fields ranging from materials science to machine learning. AQUA@home uses Internet-connected computers to help design and analyze quantum computing algorithms, using Quantum Monte Carlo techniques. You can participate by running a free program on your computer.
