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Why don't they make a internet supercomputer?
Was just curious as to why they don't make a supercomputer using peoples personal computers around the world? Simply just by asking people to download software that uses that computers computational power at a certain time. It would take a very very small fraction to create a computer more powerful than any other supercomputer. The only floor to it that I can think of that may be why they wouldn't do it is massive latency times, but surely the positives of so much power would weigh out the negatives?
*flaw - Didn't review my writing :p
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- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
They already have. Several times, in fact. Here are two examples:
- ray_diatorLv 78 years ago
Floor = flaw?
The Met Office asked computer users via the BBC to participate in running weather forecasting models to test the theory of global warming a few years back.
- 8 years ago
Good question :-) This is being done; have a look at the SETI project (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), which has used over 290,000 computers - using a program which runs as a background process when the user's computer is idle; or search for 'distributed computing'.
Source(s): http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_for_extraterre... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
