Could Wikipedia Become a Supercomputer?

An anonymous reader writes "Large websites represent an enormous resource of untapped computational power. This short post explains how a large website like Wikipedia could give a tremendous contribution to science, by harnessing the computational power of its readers' CPUs and help solve difficult computational problems." It's an interesting thought experiment, at least — if such a system were practical to implement, what kind of problems would you want it chugging away at?

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There is already existing infrastructure and projects where people can donate their system's computational power: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/