Metraipolis › archive › dc_87fdd9716279

Volunteer computing — Wikipedia (en)

Source: Wikipedia (en)
Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing
License (as archived): CC-BY-SA-4.0
Archived: 2026-10-15T14:01:44.849Z
SHA-256 of the archived text: 60c37dfdaaf388b13a8d5954d731ea7583fab70aabc954a0579d6d3329c57fb8
Stable URL of this page: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_87fdd9716279

How to cite

Volunteer computing — Wikipedia (en) — Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing (CC-BY-SA-4.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_87fdd9716279 (Metraipolis archive dc_87fdd9716279, sha256 60c37dfdaaf388b13a8d5954d731ea7583fab70aabc954a0579d6d3329c57fb8)

BibTeX

@misc{dc87fdd9716279,
  title = {Volunteer computing — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_87fdd9716279; sha256 60c37dfdaaf388b13a8d5954d731ea7583fab70aabc954a0579d6d3329c57fb8},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which people donate their computers' unused resources to a research-oriented project, sometimes in exchange for credit points. The fundamental idea behind it is that a modern desktop computer is sufficiently powerful to perform billions of operations a second, but for most users only between 10–15% of its capacity is used. Common tasks such as word processing or web browsing leave the computer mostly idle. The practice of volunteer computing, which dates back to the mid-1990s, can potentially make substantial processing power available to researchers at minimal cost. Typically, a program running on a volunteer's computer periodically contacts a research application to request jobs and report results. A middleware system usually serves as an intermediary.

Tema degli esploratori: calcolo e infrastrutture (deposito sistematico; ricerca «volunteer computing»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Volunteer computing» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing
Wikidata Q2367171 (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2367171
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_computing?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
Estratto dell'introduzione non modificato nel contenuto; revisione 1363902924, consultata il 2026-10-15T13:50:23.327Z tramite l'API ufficiale di Wikipedia. Impronta SHA-256 dell'estratto: 61598a64d053f28afb36986ec8f0d16817bcd65750c15f6fa089ea66a7589884