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by Mike Masnick

Fri, Mar 1st 2002 8:51am





Grid-Googling

from the Google-taking-over-the-world dept

Brian Mooney writes "I ran across a press release at Google describing "Google Compute". It seems that Google is getting into the distributed... err... grid computing game now, adding this function to their Google Toolbar. The first good cause that they will donate toolbar users' CPU cycles to is Folding@home, the nonprofit Stanford University research project related to protein research." Interesting. What's odd is I can't find a date on that release, and in fact, I can't find it mentioned anywhere else (it's not in their list of press releases), so I don't know if this is brand new or really old. Is this a Juno strategy where they're now going to try to sell your cycles to the highest bidder?

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    It's Not Old

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    bryce, Mar 1st, 2002 @ 9:56am

    If you look here you can see how the Google team is doing. It seems like most of the users started in late August - early September. I think this is still in the beta stages and being tested by Google employees.

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    Can't seem to find it...

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    wonko, Mar 1st, 2002 @ 2:34pm

    I've been using the Google toolbar for quite some time, and when I read this I figured the distributed computing stuff must be in a new version or something, so I downloaded the latest version. Still no distributed computing, though. I concur with the other comment...this seems to be a closed beta for now. But still a very cool idea.

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