Blast from the past. In reference to all this mining talk, here's my old BOINC signature.

Milkyway maps a 3d map of the MilkyWay for future space explorers Primegrid finds primes GPUgrid uses memory cards for various university physics problems and models SETI is looking for aliens WCG finds cures for various diseases, protein modeling, and water filter efficiency testing Einstein is various physics modelling for universities Cosmology is astrophysics models LHC is from CERN, physics Collatz is maths Asteroids tracks replies from satellites tracking asteroids in space, 3d maps them Rosetta protein folding and 3d modelling vLHC more CERN stuff TN-grid and POEM are retired