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On May 24, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Kelly Jones wrote:
> Is there a project that lets you donate spare CPU power to anyone who
> needs it?  That is, a pool of CPU power that anyone can tap into for
> free to run computations that would otherwise take forever?

Yes, see:

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/CreateProjectOutline

-- 
-Chuck