Myspace alone has about 80 million current members. Most of these members are active at anytime within a given week and update their profiles on a consistent basis.

We are talking 80,000,000 people on one single website. Wondering how many are actually doing something useful online like distributed computing? Keeping in mind that a small percentage of these people don't actually have a computer but maybe use a friends, work or school.

Seems like such a waste not to have them 80 million people running distributed BOINC programs.

I think S.E.T.I at home is one of the largest and the total members are just over 3.5 million last time I checked. Most of those members aren't even active at any given time...just a couple thousand at best I think.

Wondering how far distributed BOINC computing could go with just a quarter fraction of them 80 million members...I feel we need a better and faster plan of attack for distributed computing to really get it up there where it needs to be.

I know that everytime I go over to a new persons house they have a computer turned on and running serving no particular purpose other then being idle wasting energy for no cause.

I believe we need to have enough distributed computing power to be popping these project out left and right within weeks to a few months each even larger protein folding projects included. Diversity might be the best plan of attack. There should be so much power that we can't find enough projects to make use of all the CPU power available!

I wonder how many personal home computers exist here in the United States as a ball park figure with broadband access?