charity engine

[eddyc]

Anyone heard of this?

http://www.charityengine.com

Looks like a good way to encourage people to get into distributed computing. Will anyone be taking part?

Can't see any sign of teams though. I think the prizes are the incentive rather than competition.

 

[eddyc]

Well I think I idea is to get it pretty commercial. But so long as the companies pay for the computing time and then that money is passed on to charity that is probably a good thing. Hard to know if it is a better thing than contributing to F@H or rosetta etc...

All better than nothing I suppose.

Interesting that they explicitly say on the site that they don't want dedicated crunchers. Only computers that would be turned on anyway... not totally sure about that approach either.