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http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080326/full/452397a.html
http://qcn.ucr.edu/
A seismologist at Stanford University in California has developed a
computer program for tracking earthquakes in real time. It uses
thousands of volunteers' computers and may someday be fast enough to
issue warnings just before an earthquake strikes.
Quake-Catcher Network, as it's called, uses the accelerometers built
into many new computers, which sense when a computer is dropped so that
the hard drive can be shut down. But seismologist Jesse Lawrence found
that the sensors could also pick up on more subtle movement. Thus was
born the latest iteration in distributed computing, which turns the
unused computing power of thousands of home computers into a giant
supercomputer.
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