In this publication Google Computing is mentioned. As far as I can see, they only support Folding@Home at the moment and they will add more projects. Can WCG or IBM contact Google and see if they can get the WCG supported by Google Computing?

Have a look at the blue box at the bottom of this page

http://toolbar.google.com/dc/offerdc.html

:-((

nearly missed it 190215

392 new crunchers today

maybe someone should take the oppourtunity to approach Google about adding the WCGrid UDagent to their toolbar, with an 80% CPU throttle imbedded so as to offer assurance that:
"it should never interfere with your normal use of your PC"


and it appears the Google Team is still quite active :
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=446




edit:
5. I thought Google was a search engine. Why are you introducing a function that's not related to search?

The Google search engine uses more than 10,000 networked computers to deliver results to millions of users worldwide, making it one of the largest distributed computing systems in existence. In addition to providing leading search technology, we are also interested in solving other important computationally intense problems. While we're not experts on protein folding, we do know quite a bit about using networked computers to solve difficult problems involving terabytes of data.

6. Who will ultimately benefit from this?

With the Folding@home project the results and analysis will be submitted to scientific journals for publication. Google will publish links to these articles on its website. After the publication the raw data will be made available to the public on the Folding@home website.

7. Why should I participate in this program?

Many important scientific problems such as protein folding are computationally intense. The more computers scientists have working on these problems, the faster they will be able to develop solutions. For example, understanding the structure of proteins will enable scientists to make progress in the areas of molecular biology and drug design.

8. What exactly are you going to do with my unused computer time?

If you enable Google Compute on your Google Toolbar your unused computing time will at the moment be contributed to the nonprofit Folding@home project at Stanford University. The goal of Folding@home is to model the fundamental processes of life itself - the geometric structure of proteins. You can learn more at http://folding.stanford.edu/.

In the future Google may work with other research teams on similarly complex problems, or use the network to help improve Google and its services. The third party projects we choose to help out will be carefully selected non-profit projects, with the guiding principle being to help humanity and advance scientific knowledge. Users will be clearly notified of any such projects when they are introduced, and will maintain at all times the ability to disable or uninstall Google Compute for any reason.

9. I already get enough protein in my diet... why should I care?

Proteins, in addition to being an important dietary component, are also fundamental to almost all processes in cells. Understanding and modeling how proteins fold into specific shapes could lead to the development of cures for Alzheimer's, cancer, AIDS and other diseases. By pooling together a large number of processors, scientists can understand the shapes of new proteins faster.

2382 new crunching buddies since the beginning of June

Just under 300 every day

This time next year there will be at least another 100,000 of us


I suspect a few more