Never before has the "man in the street" had so much ability to help others as now

So, what is BOINC you ask?
BOINC is a project that allows willing participants to download a simple program, that allows computers to do work in the "background", while you are using the computer for other tasks.

Computers have now become so powerful and so cheap that most of the time, the processor inside is actually doing very little real work and hence this spare capacity can be doing "something else" very easily and without disrupting your normal use. Programmers came up with the idea to utilise this spare "horse power" in a "worldwide distributed computing grid", linked by the Internet, so as to benefit many different scientific projects.

UK BOINC Team[www.ukboincteam.org.uk]