What do you guys think about these projects, I’ve began using my computer for crunching in 2003 I believe. It was seti@home and I was fascinated that normal home computers were used to help analyzing radio signals from space.
Meanwhile seti@home is running on a plattform called boinc which allows scientists to realize their projects more easily. Now I’m using my machine for a project called poem@home POEM@HOME
“By joining this project you will contribute to a computational approach to
predict the biologically active structure of proteins
understand the signal-processing mechanisms when the proteins interact with one another
understand diseases related to protein malfunction or aggregation
develop new drugs on the basis of the three-dimensions structure of biologically important proteins.
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POEM@HOME is a purely academic, non-profit project to improve our understanding of biomolecular structure and function. All substantial result of POEM@HOME will be published in international peer reviewed journals with proper credit to the POEM@HOME volunteers.”
I think it’s a great project also a short while ago gpu support was added which increased the project productivity tremendously, check it out may be it’s something you’d like to join in.