For Science

Turns out that distributed computing has provided us with a lovely way to donate computational resources to research for good causes!  Through IBM's World Community Grid and BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), computer users with Internet access can volunteer their system's unused cycles to help solve massively time-consuming problems.  The work is broken down into little chores, and separate systems handle these little chores simultaneously, meaning that the unfortunately limited funding for the research doesn't have to be used entirely on computational technology.  And the work gets done much faster!  

Find out more at the World Community Grid website and consider participating!