A grid computer looks something like this, except the computers are spread in rooms around the world

Written by IT News on 12:16 AM

There are a number of areas of investigation in which amounts of data to be analyzed is so extensive that it would be a decades shuffle through or combine them with conventional computers and scientific methods. A possible solution to this problem would be for the use of very expensive super-computer networks, which can rent out their work for different teams. But the best way, some scientists say, is that the average computer user in the lease at least part of their computers' processing power on a computer network, which consists of millions of ordinary machines, which at the same time.

The network can be used for a wide range of possible applications, ranging from modeling of the formation of the universe and galactic collisions to find a cure for dengue fever and the discovery of extraterrestrial life. By itself, each of these studies would absorb enormous amounts of work and the ridiculously high amount of computer resources. But by splitting the work between the many small users, this problem can be solved. In principle, experts say, more computers, the better. More processors can be used to either find work as quickly as possible, or analyze large amounts of information than first planned.

"The results will be shared by researchers who are interested in the development of drugs against the disease [such as dengue fever]. Actually, if you download the program from real volunteer company, then it is very safe. On the other hand, if the user has a hacker, they can to ensure that data which they work. But the chances are remote, for most often are shared, so that even a real hacker could obtain only a small amount of data. He could not cope with big picture, "Taipei-based Research Academia sinica expert Simon Lin told BBC World Service's Digital Planet.

He added that "costs [in relation to this type of research] are much lower. And secondly, we see the strategic importance of the Asian population in scientific cooperation. This is something they are less known. I think this is part of a very long-term displacement or transformation. Ultimately, science in the 21st century will be performed in a different way. This major change in the Internet and digital technology for us, but the scientific process has not really changed much and volunteer computing is one of the possible directions that can change the way we conduct scientific research. “

"Well, there is an altruistic imperative, you can actually feel good. You will contribute to scientific research and the search for UFOs or perhaps even something to cure cancer. Many of these systems now offer a points system where you may be able to submit experiments or things you want to research the system and then you built up enough points in the system, you just made yourself. This is an appeal to a large part of the time for academic researchers, but you can see in the future that there is a time when people have access to grid computing for personal projects, technology blog Tech Crunch Europe Editor Mike Butcher concluded.