This paves the way for a "Google will eat itself" http://www.gwei.org/index.php style solution and investing in new dedicated phones. Next you attach the phones to the necks of those water drinking bird toys, run Sweat coin https://sweatco.in/ from the Brave browser https://brave.com/brave-rewards/ and the rest takes care of itself!
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 2:00 PM Chuck Petras <chuck_pet...@selinc.com> wrote: > My question re financial viability was prompted by this statement in the > Neocortix article: > > > > “And phone owners could be paid for the service to rent out their phones’ > computing capacity. Neocortix claims on their website that top users can > earn up to $80 a year for a phone that’s engaged in computing for 8 hours a > day; if available for 24 hours, it can earn up to $240 a year.” > > > > So that works out to around US$0.023/hour. > > > > > > *From:* William Johnson <meatheadmer...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:23 PM > *To:* Chuck Petras <chuck_pet...@selinc.com>; Beowulf@beowulf.org > *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing? > > > > *[Caution - External]* > > > > The technology for this type of distributed computing already has a large > community. > > The BOINC Project (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) has > existed since 2002 and allows people to donate idle computing time to large > science and math computation projects. > > They have clients to run on many types of platforms with a system of job > servers that can benchmark and customize workloads to the device/processors > (CPUs/GPUs) participating. Clients that exist to participate already range > from desktops and tablets to game systems like PS3, abstracting > calculations from platforms and processors, and sometimes available to run > in virtual box on a machine to keep them separate. > > It could be nice to earn a return on this type of computation, current > projects through BOINC are largely in the realm of university research and > all participant volunteer their resources. I'm not sure what types of > commercial work loads might be willing to pay for this type of computing > resource. It does seem to limit types of jobs to data sets that can be > batch divided into parallel units, to work large problem spaces. That > brings to mind more research uses, and not many commercial uses. > > Perhaps computational modeling for research and development (like failure > testing several potential models), or analysis of geological mining survey > data, or process flow analysis for large manufacturing and distribution > systems. But it makes me think most of marketing analysis with the current > focus in big data projects from corporate environments I see in articles > and instructional materials. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:19 PM Chuck Petras <chuck_pet...@selinc.com> > wrote: > > Seen the below where a company wants to rent your smartphone as a cloud > computing resource. From a few years ago there was a company making space > heaters that contained servers to compute and heat your house. > > > > Are there any classes of problems that would be monitizeable in a grid > computing environment to make those efforts financially viable? > > > > Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing? > > https://www.eejournal.com/article/is-crowd-computing-the-next-big-thing/ [ > eejournal.com] > > > > Heating houses with 'nerd power' > > https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32816775# [bbc.com] > > > > Chuck Petras, PE** > > Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc > > Pullman, WA 99163 USA > > http://www.selinc.com > > > > SEL Synchrophasors - A New View of the Power System < > http://synchrophasor.selinc.com> > > > > Making Electric Power Safer, More Reliable, and More Economical (R) > > > > ** Registered in Oregon. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf [beowulf.org] > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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