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Science 6 May 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5723, p. 810
DOI: 10.1126/science.308.5723.810
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DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING:
Grassroots Supercomputing

John Bohannon

OXFORD, U.K.--What started out as a way for SETI to plow through its piles of radio-signal data from deep space has turned into a powerful research tool as computer users across the globe donate their screen-saver time to projects as diverse as climate-change prediction, gravitational-wave searches, and protein folding.

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