[scifinoir2] Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
This, I'll believe ten seconds after I see it... = Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers - By Priya Ganapati http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/pganapati/ [image: Email Author] priya_ganap...@wired.com - August 20, 2010 | - 1:56 pm | - Categories: RD and Inventionshttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/rd_and_inventions/ - There’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Advanced Computing Center have created an Android app that can take simulations from the powerful Ranger supercomputer and solve them further on the mobile phone. “The idea of using a phone is to show we can take a device with one chip and low power to compute a solution so it comes as close to the one solved on a supercomputer,” John Peterson, a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, told Wired.com. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/supercomputing-app-android/#ixzz0xHnCVsrE -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
Re: [scifinoir2] Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
Wow... On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.comwrote: This, I'll believe ten seconds after I see it... = Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers - By Priya Ganapati http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/author/pganapati/ [image: Email Author] priya_ganap...@wired.com - August 20, 2010 | - 1:56 pm | - Categories: RD and Inventionshttp://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/category/rd_and_inventions/ - There’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Advanced Computing Center have created an Android app that can take simulations from the powerful Ranger supercomputer and solve them further on the mobile phone. “The idea of using a phone is to show we can take a device with one chip and low power to compute a solution so it comes as close to the one solved on a supercomputer,” John Peterson, a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, told Wired.com. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/supercomputing-app-android/#ixzz0xHnCVsrE -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
Remember when people used to talk about distributed computing, allowing home PC's, for example, to be networked together by an agency or university to do things such as predict weather patterns or search for extrasolar life? That never really took off. I know there are many scientific/educational entities out there to which one can give permission to use his computer in such a network, but almost no one I know has done it. The main way our PC's nowadays participate in such group activities is when they've been hacked and some miscreant in Russia or something uses our computers to help send out DOS attacks or produce more malware to steal peoples' personal info. The potential of cell phones' increasing smartness to join a distributed network could be staggering, if such a thing were used for good purposes--and willingly. But think of the mischief people could wreak if they managed to start hacking those phones on the level they do with PCs nowadays. Kinda reminds me of the system Lucius Fox created for Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight, where he turned all the cellphones in Gotham into a giant surveillance net--a thing he immediately wanted Bruce to stop using. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter martinbaxt...@gmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 7:26:11 PM Subject: [scifinoir2] Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers This, I'll believe ten seconds after I see it... = Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers • By Priya Ganapati Email Author • August 20, 2010 | • 1:56 pm | • Categories: RD and Inventions • There’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Advanced Computing Center have created an Android app that can take simulations from the powerful Ranger supercomputer and solve them further on the mobile phone. “The idea of using a phone is to show we can take a device with one chip and low power to compute a solution so it comes as close to the one solved on a supercomputer,” John Peterson, a research associate at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, told Wired.com. Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/supercomputing-app-android/#ixzz0xHnCVsrE -- If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script? -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
