SETI @ home project, UC Berkeley developed the BOINC platform to concentrate “CPU cycles” that people voluntarily contributed. The platform has expanded to Android and also can donate to science the computing power of our mobile devices.
tend to think that the P2P is synonymous with “piracy”, the reality is very different and there are many services and projects that are based on the P2P and distributed computing. Skype or Hola.org two popular services that rely on P2P, but are not the only ones that exist outside the scope of content exchange and, for example, scientific research has much to say in this regard. Projects like SETI @ home or Intel-United Devices Cancer Research Project allow us to donate our computer processing power to contribute to scientific research requiring a “great grid “to process information, initiatives UC Berkeley focused on the BOINC project also has landed on Android .
BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a project that expanded the goals and vision that had the SETI @ home (which also had its bosom at the University of Berkeley) and in 2002 decided to work on a common infrastructure that would offer this’ externalization of resources “to any research project. With this idea, BOINC was cemented as a service that allows any voluntary install a software on your computer and so give your CPU cycles (for example, when the computer is idle and the screensaver jumps ) to perform calculations or process data for a research project.
Not all investigations have resources to develop a large supercomputer, but thanks to distributed computing is possible to develop a grid dynamic working resources in a decentralized manner and this is where, precisely, enter volunteers who give their PCs to contribute to science. In particular, these initiatives have always seemed very interesting and I think together we require a great deal nor is anything traumatic, especially if we consider that it is for a good cause (cancer research, AIDS, the change climate research related to astronomy, etc.).
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with Ubuntu, Canonical wants to change our concept of smartphones and wants to turn on desktop computers, the University of Berkeley has to get to do something similar with distributed computing and has also led to Android. BOINC for Android is a free application that can be found on Google Play and allows us to donate computing power of our smartphones (and today the power of a smartphone is not negligible) to join the grid of resources to collaborate on scientific research.
obviously a PC not like a smartphone and when our mobile phone is “idle” is saving battery and put it to work can mean a decline in autonomy . In this sense, it is totally respectful BOINC our autonomy and our data plan since, once running, will only work if the battery terminal is above 90% and are connected to a Wi-Fi (for not penalize our data plan).
What should we do to help? The truth is to contribute our grain of sand (in the form of CPU cycles) is not complicated, you just have to install the application and select within Catalog of BOINC projects that we want to collaborate with, from there, the application will get to work and take our Android device grid of research resources Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing and make it work in these research projects.
Collaborate with science is literally in the palm of our hand.
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