Introduction
Plura Processing gives charities and non-profits the ability to raise money easily. Charities can encourage people to go a Plura-sponsored webpage, embed Plura with a charity-branded application, or download the Plura desktop application (available to registered affiliates). Through each method, non-profit members and donors can convert unused CPU cycles into donations for your charity.
Superdonate is a charityware application that uses Plura to drive donations to CARE, charity: water and the Nature Conservancy.
What does Plura get in return?
A lot of information technology problems today require a lot of computing power. Most of that computing is done in enormous data centers. Typical data infrastructure is very expensive and inefficient.
Plura has developed a way to make much of that unnecessary. Instead of using a huge data center, we split up the computing power among all the computers connected to our network. These computers access our network through Plura-embedded websites and applications. By going to these pages or running these applications, you're sharing the unused power of your computer to help solve these challenging problems.
Sharing saves the environment
Very large data centers are being built every day for corporate computing needs. Not only are these data centers expensive and inefficient, but they’re also a significant source of energy waste and pollution. The New York Times reported in May 2008 that “data centers will surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020.”
Our solution is based on sharing. It’s like car pooling to save our resources. Right now, we all have excess computing power on our PCs that we never use. If we share our unused power, we can magnify the usefulness of our computers.
How much money can I raise?
Plura Processing pays affilaites up to $2.60 per full month of computing time provided. "Full month of computing time" is equaivalent to a single CPU providing compute time for an entire month at 100% utilization.
Payments depend on compute demand from our customers. As such, payments to affiliates can very from month to month.