Smartphones will turn into a supercomputer

A large number of projects on the use of PC's idle computing resources to solve scientific problems around the world for a long time are carried out.

According to “Открытые системы” jounal, HTC mobile phone manufacterer  intends to carry out the same project based on smartphones operating with an Android app. HTC said one million HTC One smartphones could provide similar processing power to that of one of the world’s 30 supercomputers (one petaflop), adding that this could drastically shorten the research cycles for organizations that would otherwise have to spend years analyzing the same volume of data, potentially bringing forward important discoveries in vital subjects by weeks, months, years or even decades.

The Power to Give initiative, which is supported by an Android app, aims to harness the unused processing power on people's mobile devices to support projects being run through volunteer computing platforms.

Once the HTC Power to Give app has been downloaded, smartphone owners can select the research programme they need.