Why should you join?

The computational power of graphics hardware is much higher than standard processor due to the large amount of calculations which are required to display realistic three-dimensional images.

This is achieved by a design and programming style change (see CUDA). A conventional processor dedicates a relatively large fraction of its transistors to complex control logic, to maximise performance of a serial code. The Cell processor contains 8 fast Synergetic Processing Elements (SPEs) designed to maximise arithmetic throughput. Graphical processing units (GPUs) devices have a very large number of slower cores maximizing parallel throughput.

For example, just ten thousand volunteers provides the computational power of the largest supercomputer on the planet for certain specific applications.