The Volunteer Supercomputing Revolution in Scientific Research (TechNewsWorld.com)
Not many insurance company employees can say they help unravel the secrets of the universe in their spare time. Jeff Renkar can. Day and night, the number-crunching power of Renkar's six personal computers at his home outside Houston is helping run complex simulations of how the early universe evolved, as part of a new University of Illinois project called "Cosmology@home."