Today, only the most ignorant idiots don’t know that except using p2p to download music, doctored Britney Spears photos or pornography, a personal computer can be used for something good for the mankind in general – for example, searching for little green aliens in the outer space. The ability to participate in these scientific explorations, based on the principle of distributed computing, is now available in the Google Toolbar – Internet Explorer module that is designed to save time while searching and typing in Google URL. The new feature Google Compute will use your computer’s free CPU cycles to compute data for global scientific projects – behavior of the world climate model for example.

    As of now the project is in beta testing: a special button has appeared in the Google toolbars of randomly selected 500 guinea p…I mean users. As of now, the only available project is Folding@home – a program developed by Stanford University that explores the connection between the DNA and carbon structure. Folding@home should help develop new drugs and treatment methods against many deceases, including AIDS and selfishness.

    The idea of Google Compute belongs to one of the Google founders, Serge Brine. This action will not bring Google any revenue. On the other hand, among the scientific projects that will be performed by Google Compute, there will be some aimed to make Google search engine better.

    Google’s idea is definitely not the first occurrence of distributed computing. This method is much cheaper than the creation of supercomputers – primarily because the participants don’t get paid anything for their “wasted” CPU cycles anyway. Up to this point, however, no distributed computing project has yielded any staggering discoveries yet. The most famous attempt at distributed computing is SETI@home – a project based on analyzing signals from the radio telescopes in hopes to find signals from extraterrestrial sources. Attempt to find the cure for cancer is not yielding any extravagant results yet neither. So far, with the help of thousands of enthusiasts, it was possible to achieve amazing, but useless discoveries: for example, the longest simple number was discovered several months ago - 2 to the power of 13 466 917 minus 1, containing 4 053 946 digits. Large science centers and pharmaceutical companies still rely on their own supercomputers and local area networks for their research. On the other hand, overall paranoia and signs of world-wide plot against humanity, suggests that in reality all the little green aliens and cancer are just simple but effective decoys. In reality, the computers are being used to predict Yogurt sales and calculation of strategic pinpoint nuclear strikes against Asia and the middle east.