Help research projects with Berkeley University's BOINC app for Android
Developer: U.C. Berkeley | Download: Android |
Genre: Education | Price: Free |
When you see an app that promises to harness the unused computing power of your Android device to run jobs for science and the glory of mankind, you'd be forgiven to suspect it for a BitCoin mining scam. But we take it we can trust the University of Berkeley and its BOINC app with the idle power of our quad-core CPUs - especially while we're asleep and the phone is quietly munching on electricity.
BOINC, short for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, is a platform for distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, environmental science, and astrophysics. It lets researchers use the combined processing power of computers across the world. At the moment, it has about 242,694 active participants and 554,055 active computers. Android is its first mobile frontier.
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