Google Compute
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Google Compute is a now discontinued separately downloadable
add-on for the Google Toolbar which allowed participation in a
distributed computing project to help scientific research. The effort's
first, and so far only, contribution was 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 enabled a user's computer to help solve challenging
scientific problems when the computer would otherwise be idle. When one
enabled Google Compute, the computer downloaded a small piece of a large
research problem and performed calculations on it that were then
included with results from thousands of other computers. Google Compute
was only available for the English language version of the Google
Toolbar.
The Google Compute homepage recommends that users wishing to continue
contributions to the project download the official Folding@home client.
![he Google Compute client](./modules/Google_Guide-MM/images/Google29.gif)
The Google Compute client.
See also
- List of distributed computing projects
- SETI@home
External links
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