142 million computer hours donated to cancer research

Howard Lake | 14 June 2001 | News

United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed up to donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project.

United Devices reports that since 3 April 2001 over 435,904 members signed up to donate their PCs’ spare processing capacity to the Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project. Over 665,757 computers are now helping the project avoid spending money on expensive super-computer access. This donated processing capacity has generated over 140,092,201 computer-processing hours.

Find out more about this peer-to-peer (P2P) initiative from United Devices and Oxford University and the Intel Philanthropic P2P program.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.