GridRepublic members run a screensaver that allows their computers to work on public-interest research projects when the machines are not otherwise in use. This screensaver does not affect performance of the host computer any more than an ordinary screensaver does. By aggregating idle resources from users around the world, we create a massive supercomputer. Our network of millions of volunteers will create a resource larger than any existing supercomputer. Computations that would take tens of thousands of years to compute on an ordinary computer can be processed in just a few months.
New medicines can be developed, the human genome can be explored, the physical origins of the universe can be modeled and probed, the search for signs of life on other planets can be extended... All these and other questions can be examined in ways and to an extent never before possible.
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