What are some other uses for folding@home style computing?
jacquesm: stress analysismatter simulationweather predictionray tracingdata miningdistributed search engineEspecially the first three would give you something to put your teeth in because they are decidedly non-local and it would be pretty tricky to get that to work in a coarse grained parallel environment with a high cost of communication between nodes.Most of the project that are being done right now fall in to the 'embarrassingly parallel' group (and it would be nice to see that change).