Oh it's one of these. It's where you use your computer to complete process cycles to help decrypt information or calculate information regarding a specified subject.

It's the kind of calculations that you need a supercomputer for, but a lot of people can't afford. Thus they send chunks to lots of people willing to participate, and who use their idle computer to complete processing cycles in order to help complete the overall calculation.

Even companies take part in these kind of events. Sony, HP, Sun Microsystems... it's quite interesting. But i'm not willing to waste my computer power on that seeing as my computer is constantly in use anyway. When i'm not here my brother uses it, and when i am here i'm always using it, and when i'm sleeping all my processing power and RAM is taken up by Shareaza and other programs to get anime overnight. If i get more RAM then i might consider it.

Edit:
I decided to join anyway. But for some reason it's screwed up. It dosn't show my name, or any of my results. What the hell happened?! Why arn't i showing up properly o.O?

If my name or results won't display properly, then i might just un-install the program.