Almost exactly a decade ago, Charity Engine began donating computing power to Rosetta@home, a brilliant 'citizen science' project run by David Baker at the University of Washington's Institute of Protein Design:
The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything - MIT News
April 24, 2020
"I really liked running this computation on Charity Engine — we actually did use a planetary-scale computer to settle a longstanding open question whose answer is 42."
Mathematicians find a completely new way to write the number 3 - New Scientist
September 18, 2019
Third time’s a charm: just weeks after cracking an elusive problem involving the number 42, mathematicians have found a solution to an even harder problem for the number 3.
"The company is looking to use excess compute capacity to create the world's most powerful supercomputer, operated as a cloud service and priced at orders of magnitude less than cloud providers." (continue reading)
