High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources (such as processing power and storage) to one or more "projects".The first volunteer computing project was the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, which was started in January 1996. It was followed in 1997 by distributed.net. In 1997 and 1998 several academic research projects developed Java-based systems for volunteer computing; examples include Bayanihan, Popcorn, Superweb, and Charlotte.. Another similar concept is Sideband computing which let a user to share his computing power while he is online.

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