Charity Engine – donating spare computing power for good
Howard Lake | 10 May 2012 | News
Charity Engine is the latest service to attempt to use idle computing power for social good projects. Previous examples include SETI@home, “the largest distributed computing effort with over 3 million users”, and United Devices cancer research screensaver initiative.
Indeed, Charity Engine is based on Berkeley University’s BOINC software, “as used by dozens of famous ‘citizen science’ projects such as SETI@home and the BBC’s climateprediction.net”.
Charity Engine is described as “a non-profit volunteer computing grid, owned and operated by the Worldwide Computer Company Ltd” in Manchester. It works by granting access to the grid to approved companies, with the profits going to charity and a prize draw for individuals who donate their idle PC capacity.
Partner charities include Oxfam, Amnesty International, Sightsavers, Practical Action, Medecins sans Frontieres, and Actionaid.
www.charityengine.com
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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.