list of distributing projects for newbies

[EmperorNero]

SETI@Home - find extraterrestrial signals

DCypher - various projects, current one is to find ways to safely dispose nuclear wastes

RC5/OGR - crack encrypted and mathematical numbers

Entropia - various projects such as mathatical, scientific, economic, ones. also has a project to find cures for AIDS; will pay for CPU time (in the future)

Poular Power - various projects, current one is to find more info about influenza; will pay for CPU time (in the future); update - new version allows PP to be run in the background while you do other work on your comp

Folderol - find more info on genes for the human genome project; opensource...get source code here

feel free to add to the list.

 

[Ken g6]

Wow! They're spreading like ... well ... like Dennilfloss! 😉 Here's a few more:

GOLEM@Home - Evolve artificial life forms on your computer

Folding@Home - Help work on the protein folding problem

GIMPS - the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search - a project to find the next world's largest prime number is listed here, along with many, many more (mostly mathematical) projects.

 

[marketsons1985]

Bump!!

 

[vss1980]

Another: ProcessTree (in bed with Dcypher)