Is this the koolest thing you have ever seen or am I drunk?
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Yes! Finally this is starting to get off the ground. I know the paranoid first reaction is to start worrying about SkyNet and Terminators knocking at the door, but the benefits are too great to ignore.

I’m just playing around with this now but the potential is fantastic and I am totally hooked. My inner hippie loves the fact that all those squandered CPU cycles and wasted energy are being put to good use, while my inner nerd is simultaneously squealing with delight at the idea of turning the internet into a massive super computer.

If you haven’t heard of grid computing before, the idea fairly straight forward and elegant, albeit fiddly enough in its implementation. Simply put, you use idle computers to solve the worlds problems. That might mean anything from protein folding or cancer research to number crunching data from radio telescopes in the hope that ET is trying to reconnect with Elliot. You get to decide which projects interest you the most; and bob’s your auntie. Your computer grabs a bunch of data and quietly chews away at it while you’re taking that coffee break.

You can download the application and get started right now. Check it out here:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

… but it’s a very well done video piece.

Stolen from th eblog of Graham Linehan.

… but very good. By filmmaker Luke Lesley.