Forced Volunteer Apps
Companies
- employees run browser in background, or after hours
- market and process simulations, data mining
Research labs and universities
- set up virtual supercomputers
- useful as a teaching tool too!
Consortia
- Opportunities for world-wide collaboration
- Global barter trade / sharing
- During the day, U.S. lab uses Japanese lab’s computers while Japan sleeps
- At night, U.S. sleeps while Japan lab uses their computers
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