Participating in grid computing projects that benefit humanity (non-trading)

[MT <mtzianos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Donate your computer's idle CPU time to humanitarian non-profit
scientific research projects. Help find cures for diseases like cancer,
or help predict the earth's climate change, or advance science e.g. the
search for gravitational waves, help CERN build its latest particle
accelerator or Berkeley University search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (the well known SETI@xxxx which started 1999).

A nice summary can be found here:
http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html

I've been taking part in such projects for a couple of years, but last 6
months many more exciting projects have come online, the software
(BOINC) has become much easier to use and participants are increasing at
double-digit rates per month. Ten days ago, BBC (UK) sponsored "Climate
Change Experiment" was launched and over 80.000 new participants joined
already.

Regards, M