SETI@home is a scientific experiment in Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which anyone with an internet connected computer can participate. It is pretty cool.
However, as you may have suspected, we are not here to talk about extraterrestrial intelligence (as much as we would like to). Instead, we are here to talk about a project that anyone with a mobile device can participate to solve more tangible problems.
Samsung recently collaborated with University of Vienna for a breakthrough mobile app called Power Sleep. Power Sleep lets people donate small bits of their mobile CPU power, so that a large “supercloud computer” can use that power for a scientific research on curing diseases such as cancer or Alzheimer’s
You don’t need to do much to activate the app; just set an alarm clock before you go to sleep then it is activated. While you are asleep, the smartphone “works” for a good cause by contributing its unused processing power to scientific research. Small packets of data, no more than 1 megabyte in size – smaller, in fact, than a conventional MP3 file – are sent out from the research lab servers and returned again after the mobile devices have performed their calculations. - See more at: http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=33886#sthash.GoJlZ9UP.dpuf
There is no need to worry about any personal data or identity thefts. Dr. Thomas Rattei, Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Vienna, confirms that “Power Sleep does not access personal data of any kind. What comes back into the servers, as a result of the calculation process of the individual devices, are only numerical values relating to protein calculations. It is very important to us that the process is transparent, based on a true open-source collaborative platform,”
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