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Re:Collaborative Map-Reduce in the browser by raghus on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @01:30PM (#501732)
Google's server farm is rumored to be over six digits (and growing fast), which is an astounding number of machines, but how hard would it be to assemble a million people to contribute a fraction of their compute time? - maybe Google can put an optional thingy into Chrome so that users' computers can be part of their server farm?
Re:Collaborative Map-Reduce in the browser by hendler on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @02:32PM (#501836)
Gears and Native Client are likely just for this.

http://code.google.com/contests/nativeclient-security/