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Screen Savers of the World Unite!

Shirts, Michael, Pande, Vijay S.·2000·Science

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Unused CPU time on desktop computers could be put to good use, if distributed computing succeeds in capturing people's imagination. In their Perspective, Shirts and Pande describe existing distributed computing projects and recent efforts to overcome parallelization problems. This vast underused resource could raise biological and other scientific computation to fundamentally new predictive levels.

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Authors
Shirts, M., & Pande, V. S.
Venue
Science
Published
2000-12-08
Volume
290
Issue
5498
Pages
1903-1904
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W1898130445
Cited by
531
References
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FWCI
15.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
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