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Home computers to help researchers better understand universe

10-24-2007 · EurekAlert!

Want to help unravel the mysteries of the universe? A new distributed computing project designed by a University of Illinois researcher allows people around the world to participate in cutting-edge cosmology research by donating their unused computing cycles.

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