Now there's a reason to feel really good about buying yourself a new games console: It will be able to join distributed computing networks and tackle some of the world's diseases. When you're not shooting things up, of course.
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Submitted by tigerincanada on August 26, 2006 - 08:31.computing | molecular biology | News | participatory
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This is something new to me. What computing networks are we actually talking about? I am not very much aware of them. I hope you can elucidate further. I will be waiting for you reply though. Hope other interested people could share what they think about this too. It's really interesting.