When I joined Seti@Home in May of 1999, I described it in print as "the common people's last chance to do 'big' science". Oh, how wrong I was! There are any number of distributed computing projects out there to partake in and I encourage anyone with spare CPU cycles to do so. You can check out some of them at the links below. This is by no means an exhaustive list, so if you don't find something that spins your propellor, you well might if you keep looking.
A Google search on "distributed computing" reveals a lot of papers on projects, schemes and structures that I found interesting. The shortest description is to be found at the
Wikipedia entry on the subject.
You can partake in almost any of these projects (some don't encompass all computing platforms).
Search for Mersenne Prime Numbers.
The "Prime95" application this uses is almost a standard stress test for PCs, too.
Folding@home Folding Proteins for Curing Disease.
Distributed.Net Various projects, mostly having to do with breaking and experimenting in encryption.
BOINC, Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Seti@home is gradually transferring to BIONC
Climate Prediction is an effort to improve the long-term accuracy of weather and climate forecasts.
Einstein@home Search detector data for gravity wave evidence of pulsars
The Large Hadron Collider is an atom-smasher at CERN in Europe. You can run calculations to improve it's design.
Predictor.net Uses a distributed network to predict protein structure from protein sequence.
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