28th January 2012, 9:10 PM
http://charityengine.com/
This is a lot like SETI@home and Folding@home, except for one big difference, it's "generalized", as in the distributed program can handle ANY sort of work load a project might wish (that can be done on a Turing machine, anyway). These work loads are all over the board, from major science research projects (like Folding@home), to major company research, to massive cloud computing work loads. That said, they have a selection process so just "having the money" isn't enough if your company just wants a platform to launch spam. Another big difference is that those who want a work load sent across this network need to pay up, and the project itself is a non-profit, splitting the pay between numerous worthy charities and random "prize winners".
Quite frankly, there's no part of this project I don't like. It's like a solution to all of life's problems.
This is a lot like SETI@home and Folding@home, except for one big difference, it's "generalized", as in the distributed program can handle ANY sort of work load a project might wish (that can be done on a Turing machine, anyway). These work loads are all over the board, from major science research projects (like Folding@home), to major company research, to massive cloud computing work loads. That said, they have a selection process so just "having the money" isn't enough if your company just wants a platform to launch spam. Another big difference is that those who want a work load sent across this network need to pay up, and the project itself is a non-profit, splitting the pay between numerous worthy charities and random "prize winners".
Quite frankly, there's no part of this project I don't like. It's like a solution to all of life's problems.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
