Computer research programs
 

I was wondering if there are any other computer research programs like SETI, which use your home computer when it's not doing anything to process some data or do its own thing.
Are there any other good cause you can get your computer to work for otehr than SETI?

not saying SETI is crap or anything, i was just wondering about any other alternatives which may be for a good cause?
like cancer or other diease research etc

Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases
http://folding.stanford.edu

cheers oiekeooiyw.
i just saw the sticky at the top as well. Am gonna try it out :)

I do my bit for cancer research with a similar program from www.grid.org

It works the usual way, screensaver etc and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know my computer's doing something useful when I'm not using it

it's a conspiracy

http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm

find large mersenne primes. what's the point? it furthers mathematical research slightly and you get money for finding the next big one!