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...machine," notes David McNett, president of Distributed.net "I'd damn well want to be compensated for it." To sweeten the deal, many community computing start-ups let participants donate a portion of their computational cycles to pet biomedical charities. People who sign up with the San Diego-based firm Entropia, for instance, can allot part of their computer's time to the FightAIDS@home project, which uses distributed computing to help Arthur Olson's lab at the Scripps Research Institute search for new anti-AIDS drugs. Others enroll participants in raffles for free airline tickets or cash prizes. Apparently, virtue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science By Screensaver | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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