Method and apparatus for documenting a contribution of a remotely accessed computing resource to a recipient organization

摘要

A method and apparatus for documenting for tax purposes a contribution of a remotely accessed computing resource (such as a CPU resource) on a donor system that is allocated by an owner of the resource to one or more recipient organizations. A central management organization (CMO) receives a selection by the owner of the resource of one or more recipient organizations to which to allocate the computing resource, and transmits to the donor system work of the recipient organizations to be performed on the donor system using the allocated computing resource. The CMO receives the results of the work from the donor system and forwards them to the recipient organizations. The CMO records usage of the allocated computing resource on the donor system by each of the recipient organizations and generates a tax receipt documenting the recorded usage of the allocated computing resource on the donor system.