[hugh3]

Is there any actual value to finding Mersenne primes? Genuinely curious.

[eli]

Hah, got me there! Honestly, I'm not so sure. But at least it's conceivably useful to someone's research.

Protein folding is a probably better example. Or, I don't know, modeling long-term weather patterns?

Here's a list to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_p...

[hugh3]

Ab initio molecular dynamics modelling. If anyone's got a few thousand spare CPUs send 'em my way!