Mobile-based volunteer computing project to empower
smartphone owners to help answer some of the world’s biggest questions
HTC, a global leader in mobile innovation and design, today
unveiled HTC Power To Give™, an initiative that aims to create the a
supercomputer by harnessing the collective processing power of Android
smartphones.
Currently in beta, HTC Power To Give aims to galvanize
smartphone owners to unlock their unused processing power in order to help
answer some of society’s biggest questions. Currently, the fight against
cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer’s; the drive to ensure every child has clean water
to drink and even the search for extra-terrestrial life are all being tackled
by volunteer computing platforms.