Google would like to request your help on Google Compute, a new feature for the Google Toolbar. By turning on this feature, you allow your computer to work on complex scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. The work it does is automatically sent via the Internet to researchers who combine it with information sent by thousands of other users.

By participating in this program, you’re helping Google assemble the world’s largest virtual computer, composed of unused processor time from millions of Google users around the globe. We believe this immense distributed computer will help solve important problems, to everyone’s benefit.

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