Once past the obvious tounge in cheek bent of your comment, this idea has great merit. Pitting distributed comptuing resources against less esoteric causes should have been done a long time ago. The medical field alone must have hundreds of number crunching tasks to be performed. Think about it, Best and Banting discovered Insulin with pencil and paper calculations, how far could we progress with a hundred thousand clients working on Cancer data for example?
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Once past the obvious tounge in cheek bent of your comment, this idea has great merit. Pitting distributed comptuing resources against less esoteric causes should have been done a long time ago. The medical field alone must have hundreds of number crunching tasks to be performed. Think about it, Best and Banting discovered Insulin with pencil and paper calculations, how far could we progress with a hundred thousand clients working on Cancer data for example?