[Beowulf] Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?

[Alexander Antoniades]

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_Petras at selinc.com>
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> My question re financial viability was prompted by this statement in the
> Neocortix article:
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> “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.”
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> So that works out to around US$0.023/hour.
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> *From:* William Johnson <meatheadmerlin at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:23 PM
> *To:* Chuck Petras <Chuck_Petras at selinc.com>; Beowulf at beowulf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Beowulf] Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?
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> The technology for this type of distributed computing already has a large
> community.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:19 PM Chuck Petras <Chuck_Petras at selinc.com>
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> 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.
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> Are there any classes of problems that would be monitizeable in a grid
> computing environment to make those efforts financially viable?
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> Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?
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> https://www.eejournal.com/article/is-crowd-computing-the-next-big-thing/ [
> eejournal.com]
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> Heating houses with 'nerd power'
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> https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32816775# [bbc.com]
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