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Meet the Startup: Connecting with CPUsage

Rick Turoczy on September 13, 2011

I know you. You’re working hard while you’re sitting at your computer. But what if your computer could be doing hard work for other hardworking folks while you’re away from the keyboard?

That’s the question that CPUsage is answering. It’s kind of like AirBnB or Second Porch for your latent processing power.

For more information, follow @cpusage on Twitter, like CPUsage on Facebook, or visit CPUsage.

For more interviews, subscribe to Meet the Startup on YouTube, follow @MeettheStartup or like Meet the Startup on Facebook.

Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy

  1. Richard April 27, 2012 at 12:01 am

    Another perhaps unseen side effect…. Is nearly free home heating!

    Every watt of electricity your computer uses doesn’t just vanish…. It comes out of the back of your computer as heat, warming the room it is in.

    Providing CPusage pays enough to cover most of the electricity bill, its nearly free home heating as well as performing a usefull task, Getting twice the work out a given amount of energy!

    So CPusage is also an awsome GREEN idea for warming our homes!

    A good CPU power to cost ratio quiet PC giving out 200ish Watts of heat 24/7 in every room would be more than adequete for heating an entire home.

    And likely would not cost much more than a good central heating system, and would double up as a PC in every room too 🙂

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  15. Jmartens September 13, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    Thanks for the opportunity to do this!

    CPUsage is also hiring: http://siliconflorist.com/jobs/view/c-superstar

  16. M. Edward (Ed) Borasky September 13, 2011 at 12:22 pm

    This is a marvelous concept. The science community has been doing this for years, starting with SETI@home.

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