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I'm not sure, but I believe UD will sell your volunteered CPU time to companies. Last time I looked, they even tell you that on their website.

There's other places that resources can go to. Folding@home and Genome@home, SETI@home, distributed.net (at least you can actually make money if you're lucky).

I've never posted in here, I'm just suprised that THG is supporting UD instead of something more resonable.

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Are you referring to the commercial web testing? You can turn that other stuff off (which I did when I realized what it was) so now I believe all my crunching is on the Cancer or Small Pox research projects.

Scout
700 Mflops in SETI!

But those tests are run by a certain company who gets to do whatever they want with the results you find...

Some day I'll be rich and famous for inventing a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet.
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We are helping <A HREF="http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/" target="_new">Cancer Research at the University of Oxford, England</A> and/or participating in <A HREF="http://www.grid.org/projects/smallpox" target="_new">Patriot Grid - Smallpox Reseach</A> too. You can specialize one or the other if you like or do both ... one Work Unit at a time.

Yes - United Devices is a "for profit" contractor service just like a web host or ISP. The cancer research results are handled by a non profit organization. <A HREF="http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/" target="_new">The University of Oxford, England</A>

Every working computer must be improved .... or replaced ...

<A HREF="http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=510E6639..." target="_new">Join the THG Team.</A>
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