Charity Engine
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| Company type | Ltd. |
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| Industry | Distributed Computing |
| Founded | United Kingdom |
| Founder | Mark McAndrew |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Mark McAndrew, Matt Blumberg, Mark Roberts, Stephen Wolfram (Advisor) |
| Products | Charity Engine PC app |
| Owner | The Worldwide Computer Company Limited |
| Website | http://www.charityengine.com/ |
Charity Engine is a free PC app based on Berkeley University's BOINC software, ran by The Worldwide Computer Company Limited. The project works by selling spare home computing power to universities and corporations, then sharing the profits between eight partner charities and periodic cash prize draws for the users; those running the Charity Engine BOINC software on their home computers. When there are no corporations purchasing the computing power, Charity Engine donates it to existing volunteer computing projects such as Rosetta@home, Einstein@Home and Malaria Control and prize draws are funded by donations.[1]
In August 2014 the Rosetta@home project reported Charity Engine had contributed over 125,000 new PCs to its grid.[2]
References
- ^ "How It Works". Charity Engine. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
- ^ "The Power of Charity For Protein Design". University of Washington. Retrieved 2014-08-15.