Tuesday, April 13, 2010

A Fantastic Idea for charity fund raising



I've had an idea for raising money for charity organisations. As some of you may know a number of research projects with a need to use huge amounts of computational power to run numbers and simulations with large numbers of variables use a variation of distributed computing in which the general public up and allow their computer to work on a small subset of the simulation which not busy. Basically this means that if your using 15% of your cpu the other 85% is being used to run the numbers the project needs. With 1000's of ppl signing up this method provides the kind of computer power that would normally require millions of dollars of hardware.




Most of the time we use less than 20% of our CPUs capacity




My idea resolves around identifying company's that would have a use for that kinda of computing power perhaps non charity based research projects and setup a system where by they could pay a charity organisation for the amount of computing time they get through users signing up to help with their project.

This comes at no cost to the general public as the programs only use the cpu power that the user is not. The only cost to the charity is potential setting up the admin involved in a distributed computing scheme. The Company gets access to huge amounts of computing power , good publicity. and a huge saving over buying the equivalent hardware.

Tada.

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