Donate Your CPU To Fighting AIDS


	Donate Your CPU To Fighting AIDS

techtipster

2-25-2008 6:18 PM

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cancer, aids, aliens, distributed computing, supercomputers, computers, tech tips, tech

techtipster says:

When you're not using your PC, all it's processing power is lying unused, wasted. It doesn't have to. Distributed computing lets you team up with SETI researchers to discover alien life, or donate processing power to the struggle to find a cure for cancer.

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