Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners donate their computing resources (such as processing power and storage) to one or more projects.

• Wikipedia entry.
• See available projects at List of distributed computing projects (Wikipedia).
• Folding@Home.
• My statistics at Folding@Home and at Extreme Overclocking.
• My talk on volunteer computing at BarCamp Monterrey 2013. See video below.
• Take the survey Computer Usage on society