Idle CPUs

Overview Not many people turn their computers off every time they leave their desk. People attend meetings, grab a quick lunch, or talk on the phone while their computer sits idle. Many people even leave their computers on all night. Harnessing these "idle cycles" can result in massive computing power, especially when done on a large scale. Read the links below to learn how you can donate your computer's idle cycles to a good cause.

General Information Just what is a "cycle"? Read a definition at this Webopedia page or this searchwin2000 page. Read Lending an idle cycle for general information about donating computer time. This Team-SciFi.com Forum page provides information and links to distributed projects. Up Front: Give Your Unused Cycles to Science also has general information and links.

Ongoing Projects Browse through the projects below and see if any prompt you to donate your extra cycles!

• SETI@home
• Distributed.net
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• Cancer Research
• FightAIDS@home
• Folding@home: from genome to structure
• PiHex: A distributed effort to calculate Pi

Completed Projects The Sierpinski problem search has completed one phase and is set to start another. The ECCp-109 project succeeded at solving the code-cracking challenge.