Google Compute
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Google Compute is a separately downloadable add-on for the Google Toolbar which allows participation in a distributed computing project to help scientific research. The effort currently contributes to Folding@home, a non-profit endeavor to model the process of protein folding in order to better understand and cure many diseases.
Google Compute enables your computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. When you enable Google Compute, your computer will download a small piece of a large research project and perform calculations on it that will then be included with the calculations performed by thousands of other computers doing the same thing. Google Compute is currently only available for the English language version of the Google Toolbar.
External links
- Google Compute download page (http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html)
- Google Compute FAQ (http://toolbar.google.com/dc/faq_dc.html#faqs)
- Google Group for Google Compute (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=google.public.labs.compute)