Goolgle Adding Folding to Tool Bar

[Picchu]

FYI:

From www.extemetech.com

Update: Google Turns On Peer-To-Peer Computing App

Google has turned on a distributed-computing feature in its toolbar which will allow idle computers to donate idle CPU cycles to cancer research--and to Google itself in the future.

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,288866,00.asp

[Hans Arne Iversen]

Thanks for the info Picchu.
I hope they inform their users about it and don't do as kazaa did.

[Picchu]

Hmmm, will Google then, by default, register all those Google toolbar users to their Google team? Could be some unfair competition...don't you think? :(

[Hans Arne Iversen]

Looks like it goes to their team
http://folding.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/teampage.detailed?q=446
If it continue they will be number one in no time

[Hans Arne Iversen]

and their page doesn't say a word about F@H
http://toolbar.google.com/
:mad:

[Picchu]

I'm sure having the support of Google toolbar users is a very good thing for this project and for a wide range of future scientific projects that need this type of processing power.

In terms of team competition right now, Google should be placed in a different category -- a different league. Google could then compete with other toolbar sponsors. Other search engines have toolbars and there are plug-in toolbars for Internet Explorer.

On a more depressing note, if it catches on with Google toolbar users and those users participate in the the hundreds-of-thousands, then it might make team competition irrelevant. :(

[LBaker]

If that would happen I'd say they are fair game for pimping. :D