On 2019-11-27 11:23, beowulf-requ...@beowulf.org wrote:
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:19:20, Chuck Petras 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.
Whatever payment they make must also be weighed against the phone battery running down much faster than it otherwise would. Seems like the sort of background application which, if one forgot to turn it off, could easily result in a dead phone just when it was needed at the end of the work day.
The idea that unused cycles are somehow "free" I think dates way back to the time when computers had fixed clock speeds and the amount of power the CPU used was nearly independent of what they were doing. These days unless set otherwise ("max performance" or the like) most machines turn their clocks way down when they are not busy. So burning all of those "free" cycles will result in substantially higher power consumption. Phones do that even more than other computers. It seems likely that if the application was only running when the phone was plugged into its charger that level of payment could cover those extra electricity costs.
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