December 11, 2006
Make “Money” With Your Spare CPU Power
If you have spare CPU power, you may be interested to participate in this program. The working is similar to SETI where participating user computers are used to help in analyzing the data collected. In this latest offering, you can sell your excess CPU power for money. However at the moment this is still being tested and for participants, they are paid in “CPUcoins’. Also there must be buyers for the distributed computing power before real money is seen.
Nevertheless still an interesting idea, thanks for the following resources :-
New Service Lets PC Users Sell Spare CPU Cycles - Technology News by TechWeb
An Italian programmer has launched a service that may eventually pay PC users who rent out their systems to supercomputer-like distributed computing projects.
CPUShare is the brainchild of Andrea Arcangeli, a Linux developer. “CPUShare allows home users to profit from the significant power of their hardware that otherwise would be wasted every day,” Arcangeli said on his Web site.