To analyze millions of data quickly, just onePCis not enough. However, it is an important task for many scientists who are looking for information that can only be accessed after having carried out a phenomenal number of operations. But rather than using a supercomputer or renting multiple servers, some have found a more collaborative and less expensive solution.
In fact, thedistributed computingis a process that uses community devices to pool their performance to generate more results and send them to a centralized network. Like other P2P systems such as the BitTorrent protocol or certain cryptocurrency mining, this alternative is cooperative.
Help science from your couch
Even if Wuhan disease still wreaks havoc on humans as wellthan economical, we can all, at our own level, participate in the effort made by the engineers and professionals of thehealthwho are doing everything to remedy it.
The principle is simple: you just need to install a small program on yourMac(other operating systems such as Windows are also eligible), which will run in the background so as not to disturb you. When you work or watch your series onNetflix, it will use the components of your computer to make its calculations, then send its conclusions to researchers.
Obviously the settingsapplicationallow you to keep control over the percentage of CPU power you allocate to the software, and it is possible to cut the latter at any time.
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