Have you ever heard of a program, a server (or something like that), that connects computers around the world to solve problems, such as cancer? Maybe it's sort of something like the web bot?
A ''supercomputer'' connected by different computers to solve problems?virus scanner
Here is one:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
there was another where a person could buy your idle CPU cycles but I forgot what it was called :(
A ''supercomputer'' connected by different computers to solve problems?anti virus software
There are several such computers. I don't know anything about them, but I have heard of them. One program was tried by SETI. Some companies do something similar with employee computers during ''down'' time. It's not a new idea, but it does take some serious programming to get going.
I have heard of many things such as buying computer's idle cpus even ps2 ps3 and xbox's as well. This was talk amunst my database class last semister so.
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