MilkyWay@home
"The goal of Milkyway@Home is to use the BOINC platform to harness volunteered computing resources in creating a highly accurate three dimensional model of the Milky Way galaxy using data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey."
http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/
Home computers around the world unite to map the Milky Way
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100210124823.htm
PCs Unite To Map The Milky Way - Space News - redOrbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1821376/pcs_unite_to_map_the_milky_way/index.html
