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Serious question. I am not a programmer or anything. I'm

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Serious question.
I am not a programmer or anything. I'm a mechanical engineer, but I understand more than enough about computing.
How possible would it be to make a piece of software for Android, that works as a distributed computing network?
Android is the most used mobile OS.
And most if not all phones have internet access.
so why not use that when charging (so your battery doesn't die).

Any thoughts?
Regardless of politics involved and economics. Is the software possible to do?
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>>60313651
Software is possible to do
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The serval mesh and open garden come to mind to share communication.
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Let me get this straight, you're asking us if it's possible to make an android botnet?
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>>60313769
I'm asking you if it's possible as a user to voluntarily download an application that when you allow it will download the required files for computation and send some sort of result back to a server.
the server will then compile all the singular results into a big pile of shit that is the answer to computing problem.
I was thinking of this for huge finite element analysis models.
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Why do you need these calculations with a phone
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>>60313828
folding@home for Android?
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>>60313651
Possible yes, practical no. Apart from the embarrassingly parallel algorithms, you need a fair amount of communication to the node throughout the run. Also, no matter how easy or difficult the project, you're usually working with absolutely huge datasets, and those need a lot of bandwidth to move around.
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>>60313651
>I'm a mechanical engineer
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>>60313651
Idea in theory is good, but the more you think you realise it is not so good

1. You would need to find substential amount of normies that would download your app, and let it use mobile data,ram, battery life... I reckon not to many would download
2.Without good network algorithms would be less efficent than doing them at one machine
3.Same problem could be done, exponentaly faster, using a desktop application of same use
4.Mobile CPU is not meant for real computation, sure to some extend, but...

Imo that same idea done via programm or even browser app would be more efficent
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>>60313828
Yeah, it's called distcc. You only need to create a user interface for it.
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