This is one part of the UCS taxonomy chart with examples of UCS's that aggregate resources from computer systems, like their hard disk space, network bandwidth or processing power.
This distributed computing project tackles protein folding (rather, misfolding) which is involved in many serious diseases
SETI@home
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.
Skype
Skype allows people to make voice calls computer to computer or out to phone lines, and video calls computer to computer.
This organization's goal is "to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity" and their grid is available for public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research. More than 400,000 people have participated in their projects.
Gomez Last Mile Testing Service
Gomez last mile testing service allows their customers to test web page performance from across the world and through a variety of internet connections. This is enabled by users running a Gomez client on each of their machines. This allows us to check our customer's web site performance from dialup through cable connections and from Anchorage to Miami.
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