To our loyal compute partners: First, I want to take the opportunity to thank each of you for your support over the past year. You’d be amazed at what we’ve been able to accomplish with our small team of engineers and you’ve been instrumental in providing us a scalable beta platform to build out the… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Computer Owners
CPUsage and Your Security Software
In order to harness your unused processing power, CPUsage runs two programs on Windows based computers. The first is Cirrus.exe and its the one you see and interact with. The second is an application that you can’t see or interact with called Shelby.exe. Shelby is the application that does the heavy lifting for our clients…. Read more »
We Screwed Up
No more than 5 seconds after clicking “send” on an email to all of our partners, I realized that we screwed up. Big time. We broke one of the most important rules of email. We aren’t going to hide behind it, we aren’t going to pretend it didn’t happen, we aren’t going to make excuses…. Read more »
Details About Points and Earnings
The long-awaited blog post on points has arrived! This post has all the answers to the questions that have been keeping you up late at night. Never again will you spend a sleepless night staring at your idle computer wondering what could possibly be going on inside it’s metal and plastic frame. Just kidding. Earning… Read more »
Troubleshooting and Improving Performance
During Spring 2012, CPUsage rolled out a major update to Cirrus, our partner software for Windows machines. Cirrus is the lightweight tool that allows CPUsage to harness your unused processing power, in turn earning you points. If you are running this software and are experiencing any issues or are not earning as many points as… Read more »