Screen Savers of the World Unite!

2000/12/08 by Michael R. Shirts, Vijay S. Pande · 12 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research #Cell Image Analysis Techniques #Computer science #Perspective (graphical) #Resource (disambiguation) #Computation #Data science #Distributed computing #Artificial intelligence #Computer network #Programming language

paper · doi:10.1126/science.290.5498.1903

openalex publication_date 2000/12/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

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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