[Mo1]

Stanford, is not only pushing the envelope in protein research, but is pioneering a new level in distributed computing.

I don't mean to sound rude ... but that sounds like an info commercial

And, the program is "voluntary", so there is no issue of "piggy back".

Ok then ... you are voluntarily letting Standford to piggy back

[papasmurf]

To say "piggyback", you imply that we are sharing our band width, or we are physically sharing our CPU. That is a misconception. We d/l a small, highly compressed file, it runs on our pc, without an internet, and "folds" the proteins. When it has finished, we then connect to the internet and upload the results and d/l another, and so on. I'm as sure as you are, that my firewalls stops them from gaining access to my pc.

:O)

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[papasmurf]

To say "piggyback", you imply that we are sharing our band width, or we are physically sharing our CPU. That is a misconception. We d/l a small, highly compressed file, it runs on our pc, without an internet, and "folds" the proteins. When it has finished, we then connect to the internet and upload the results and d/l another, and so on. I'm as sure as you are, that my firewalls stops them from gaining access to my pc.

:O)

P