Donate Idle CPU Time

I primarily use my home computer for internet browsing, emailing and personal document management purposes. Most of the time my computer is powered on when I am home. Once it dawned on me that I should be donating my CPU time when it is just sitting idle doing nothing. After some research on the web I bumped onto World Community Grid which enables you to donate your idle CPU time for research purposes. I know SETI exists but I am not a big fan of finding extra terrestrial life when we have a lot of issues to deal with at our “earth” home.

I have been using their software for more than a year and never has this software been intrusive or hampered my normal work. To its credibility it is sponsored by the IBM. There are lots of interesting details on the website which I will not mention here as I believe that if you are interested you will take the initiative to visit the site.

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