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These programs work well because they are able to get people to give them computing time for free. Obviously, a million PCs would be more expensive than the equivalent number of supercomputers if the lab had to pay for all of them.
One implementation I've heard of this type of computing is a program at USC that uses the computers in the campus computer lab to work on earthquake simulations whenever they are not in use by students.
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"Many are my names in many countries. Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkun to the Dwarves; Olorin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incanus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not"
--The Two Towers
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