I've prepared a document about various DC (giving more weight to life science projects) at:

http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html

I discuss various projects and highlight Rosetta in particular. I've made an effort to check all info and facts, so please let me know (either here or via email) if you see any errors or ommissions.

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How-To: Join Distributed Computing projects that benefit humanity

I've prepared a document about various DC (giving more weight to life science projects) at:

http://www.hyper.net/dc-howto.html
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Good work!

One detail: you describe SETI as the mother of all DC projects - it wasn't really (unless by 'mother' you just mean the biggest).

There were several DC projects before SETI, at least one is still going, the Great Internet Mersenne Primes Search. What SETI did was make DC widely know, pre-SETI it was mainly only known by those in the field of IT or in the exact field that was being crunched. SETI cannot take credit for inventing DC, it can take credit for making it normal for people to crunch projects outside their own main field of interest (like me an IT/physics guy crunching biochem).

In retrospect an application like looking for aliens was exactly the right one to appeal to a huge huge pool of donors to promote DC from the side streets to the mainstream.

R~~

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