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Friday, June 14, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,736020,00.html Keying into the global computer Gary Wilkinson and Jack Schofield A 19-year-old architectural student in the Czech Republic recently reached a landmark when his PC, running the SETI@Home screen-saver, made the project's half-billionth download. At the same time, millions more PCs in homes, offices and universities around the globe were "folding" proteins, helping with cancer and Aids research, analysing stock market trades, or calculating ever larger prime numbers. Welcome to the grid. The success of SETI@Home, which uses about 3.5 million PCs to analyse telescope data in the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, should not be measured by the fact that it hasn't found any. By showing that it is possible to harness the processing power of millions of PCs connected to the internet, it has encouraged the development of dozens of projects to do the same thing in more sophisticated ways, ushering in what could be a new era in computing....
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