The fastest computer on Earth, right now...
- cost over a trillion dollars
- could fill every football stadium in Britain
- uses more electricity than most countries
...and is doing 99% nothing.
This enormous machine could be predicting climate change, analysing atoms or finding a cure for cancer. It could be designing non-polluting cars, discovering new sources of energy or just making its owner rich. Why is nobody using it?
Because the owner is you.
The fastest computer on Earth, right now, is actually your PC and the millions just like it. The Internet is not just a collection of websites, music and videos any more. It is also a network of over a billion PCs, easily enough to fill all those football stadiums. In effect, the Internet has become one gigantic computer with a billion processors - just like the one in your PC - and we are hardly using it.
It turns out that modern PCs are now so fast, those billion processors spend 99% of their time just wasting electricity, waiting for something to do. We believe that they can be doing something better. Something much better.
With The Charity Engine™, your idle PC can now give you unlimited chances to win $1,000,000, for free, because it is raising money for charity. Sounds incredible, but this is how it works.
All you have to do is use The Charity Engine™ screensaver on your PC. (You don't have to lift a finger ever again.) From then on, whenever your computer's processor is idle, the screensaver will automatically do scientific calculations in the background.
Each PC can only earn around $1 per month quietly working as a calculator, which is not enough to make it fun for anybody. So instead, we let all the dollars build up into one huge prize fund - and then give it all away in one go. Now that's fun!
Every time the prize fund reaches $2,000,000 The Charity Engine™ gives $1,000,000 to charity and $1,000,000 to one lucky person, chosen at random, for using The Charity Engine™ screensaver. (The more calculations your PC does, the more chances you have to win the $1,000,000.) Then the prize fund starts growing again.
So there you have it - it really is possible to be entered into unlimited $1,000,000 prize draws, for free, because you are helping to raise millions for charity at the same time. All you need is The Charity Engine™, a screensaver and one idle PC.
How cool is that?
