You know maybe all the Folding @ home-like projects that you can use to do (in the case of Folding @ home: Folding proteins) scientific calculations your desktop (or Playstation 3). Now there with BOINC also Android app that you can use to support science.
your Android device
Yesterday we wrote about Weathermob app that smartphone users use as weather and today we write about BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) with the processing power of your smartphone is used for scientific computing. Information is transmitted via wi-fi so it will not cost you data and processing power is only used when it is not used for anything else. Also, the phone or tablet hanging on the charger and more than 95% charged before the app is relying on your device. You can otherwise change these settings. BOINC was already available for the desktop computer but now also for Android, developing a version for iPhone and iPad is now on the program.
Sum of parts
Nowadays smartphones little mini computers with processing power that makes it possible to perform calculations. Of course the processing power enables not very common in comparison to that of a PC but with a billion Android devices in the world exceeds a supercomputer. The app was developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and allows scientists to free extra power gain at their disposal for scientific purposes such as research on AIDS (Fight Aids @ home) and finding new stars (einstein @ home).
Fight AIDS @ home: One of the projects you can contribute via BOINC
Download BOINC for Android
BOINC was developed with donations from Max Planck Institute (Einstein @ Home), the National Science Foundation and Google. The interface comes from IBM. The app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store for Android 2.3 or higher here. The app will still very high valuations. Who would you rather use the PC version, click here.
[Via: Cnet]
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