Jul 20, 2009

Green Cloud

Here is an idea that my friend and co-founder in Ghobee came up with: Green Cloud.

It's a mix between Seti@Home and cloud computing services like Amazon's EC2 and Google's App Engine. The idea would be to program a software that people could download and use as screensavers/etc, that would give their unused computer time and processing power to companies' computing needs. Green Cloud could charge the companies the same amount or less than Amazon and Google and all the money would go to charity, maybe of the user's choice. This software could be a quite decentralized P2P application, so the running costs would be very minimal. This would be a great and simple way to participate in charity.

If someone has time and passion to code this, please take it and let us know so we can start using it as well :)

2 Comments:

jilflirt said...

Can I share your idea on my facebook page? I know lots of computer geeks, many of whom are very altruistic.

Lasse Enersen said...

Go right ahead! :)