Have you had a Boinc recently?

Yes that the "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing"

As they say - 'BOINC is free, open-source software for distributed computing'.

What this means is you sign up to a project of your choice, they download you a piece of 'work', and when you PC/Mac/Linux box is not doing anything, it uses the spare CPU cycles to compute the work - along with displaying a screensaver.

You divide up the work as you wish betweeen the projects. There are many projects rangings from looking for aliens, to predicting climate prediction (you might have heard of the BBC experiment?), protein folding, etc, etc... A list of which can be found here (and they are growing all the time). The BBC have made it very user friendly from here.

Basically you can become part of the largest computer in the world.

I am part of the following projects:


Which started with SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in 1999:


Go on - donate some of your computing power to ClimatePrediction.net!