2003-07-02
... ? AnandTech: Distributed Computing FAQ UpdateWith the huge potential of today's processors, the CPU's execution units sit idle in the eternity between your keyboard strokes when you are not performing something intensive like encoding a movie or playing a game. What if you could harness all that idle time and put your processor to doing something useful? Something like searching for a cure for a currently incurable disease, or trying to prove some esoteric mathematical law, or looking for life in outer-space? All fine and grand-sounding, but they all seem like daunting tasks when you try to do it all by yourself.
