Spare Some Idle CPU Cycles For Charity This Season

Well, it's that time of year again when families come together to stare moodily at each other over lunch and, in theory at least, we're supposed to be thinking about others less fortunate than ourselves. To that end, stay you hand before you switch off the office PC and head off for some seasonal shopping. For those CPUs could be put to good work for charity, no less. The Charity Engine is a non-profit volunteer computing grid. Based on Berkeley University's BOINC software for grid computing - as used by dozens of famous 'citizen science' projects such as SETI@home. Charity Engine?s version of BOINC simply donates what it makes from research projects on its grid and donates the cash to charity, while incentivising users with randomly generated cash prizes. Profit from the commissions from science and industry is shared 50-50 between the charities and prize winners. You can use the invite code for the beta: CRUNCH.

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