Charity Engine

Charity Engine

Type	Ltd.
Industry	Distributed Computing
Founded	United Kingdom
Founder	Mark McAndrew
Headquarters	Manchester, England, UK
Key people	Mark McAndrew, Matt Blumberg, Mark Roberts, Stephen Wolfram (Advisor)
Products	Charity Engine PC app
Owner	The Worldwide Computer Company Limited
Website	http://www.charityengine.com/

Charity Engine is a free PC app based on Berkeley University's BOINC software, ran by The Worldwide Computer Company Limited. The project works by selling spare home computing power to universities and corporations, then sharing the profits between eight partner charities and periodic cash prize draws for the users; those running the Charity Engine BOINC software on their home computers. When there are no corporations purchasing the computing power, Charity Engine donates it to existing volunteer computing projects such as Rosetta@home, Einstein@Home and Malaria Control and prize draws are funded by donations.^[1]

In August 2014 the Rosetta@home project reported Charity Engine had contributed over 125,000 new PCs to its grid.^[2]

References

1. "How It Works". Charity Engine. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
2. "The Power of Charity For Protein Design". University of Washington. Retrieved 2014-08-15.