[Beowulf] Is Crowd Computing the Next Big Thing?

[Dernat Rémy]

Hi,

Moreover, there is an environmental and a network cost for this. eg : is 
it worth spending half an hour or less, computing and transferring data 
on a small and old smartphone connected in 3g or less at the opposite 
side of the world ?

I mean, maybe there is some sort of checking when you install this 
software : scanning your connection type and and your smartphone 
performances prerequisites (not just if it can be or cannot be installed 
on your OS) (...); but I think there is no such thing like this.

Best regards,

Le 27/11/2019 à 19:19, Chuck Petras a écrit :
>
> 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 <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?
>
> *[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_Petras at selinc.com 
> <mailto:Chuck_Petras at 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?
>
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>     Heating houses with 'nerd power'
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