Tuesday, July 23, 2013

An Android hunting Aliens, cure cancer and fighting AIDS ... - Middle Bit

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In 1999 a little program called Athena § à £ o £ Enta of the nascent Internet: If called Seti @ Home. In this ª ncia was a client computaà § à £ o distribuÃda, which broke a big problem in thousands of small computational units. These units were processed and sent to a remote server.

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Ida was was ingeniously simple: Your computer most of the time do not are you doing anything à º til. While You type text on the CPU is 5%. The 95% left over could be used for other things, how to search for extra-terrestrial life.

With the success of the Seti @ Home, appeared the other § Serbia, including BOINC, for which the SETI has migrated. BOINC allows that you choose which design will help ¡, donating CPU. May be identifying celestial objects in the Einstein @ home, can be modeled proteins or fighting AIDS in FightAIDS @ home.

disadvantage of BOINC © Ã © lacing today it was restricted to the desktop, but now that has changed. It is also available on Google Play Android client (2.3 +).

â €? Ah, but’m not going to eat my battery with this denies ³ cio, damn it cà ¢ ncer,’m not going to run out Instagramâ??

Calm, everything has been thought. You can configure a lot of limitaà § Unknown eg sà ³ let the beast run when plugged in, or when the battery is above a percentage, or only when connected via WIFI. The goal of the à © do not drain your phone but make use of it when it do not it’s In use, without interrupting your life.

As nowadays any mobile DualCore à © thousands of times more fast paced that mà ¡£ Coal-fired machines of the 90′s, the à © benefÃcio potential much higher. In 2007, the BlueGene / L supercomputer from IBM was the most fast paced world, costing millions and calculating the 596 teraflop / s. Today the Seti @ Home, with 152,000 Members Active asset generates a processing capacity of 505 teraflop / s. Imagine when entering the Androida? |

Source: EG.

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