Google Compute - anyone doing it?

[dantheman]

Google has a new thing called Google Compute that attaches itself to your IE toolbar (the Google toolbar, if you have that downloaded and enabled).

According to the site:

Google Compute is a new feature of the Google Toolbar. The goal of Google Compute is to make a contribution to science by enabling Google Toolbar users to easily donate their idle computer time to worthwhile causes. The Google Compute version of the Google Toolbar detects when a computer is idle and puts it to work on complex mathematical problem from such fields as drug design and global climate modeling.

So it’s a kind of disitributed computing tool, like SETI@Home is. Currently, also according to the site, the project involves the research of the geometric structure of proteins.

Sounds kinda neat. I’m enabling mine!

[JohnT]

I have the toolbar… I might have to look into it.

God, do I find the toolbar to be handy as hell! How did I ever live without it?