Distributed Computing on XDA

[goreblast]

Does anyone know if there is any Distributed Computing project that can be run on Windows Pocket PC devices?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Even if there were it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. Mobile devices are optimized not for computational power, but efficiency for long battery life. You'd find any mobile device to have extremely poor floating point performance. Floating point performance is what determines output in most DC programs.

 

[Berserker]

What he said - you'll run out of battery before you ever get close to computing a workunit.

 

[VeNT]

and if you ran it on mains it would still take forever and likely kill your device.

 

[SiriusB]

You might as well attempt to run a DC project on a blender for all the power youd get from an XDA!

 

[babyface uk]

You might as well attempt to run a DC project on a blender for all the power youd get from an XDA!

what about a George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine.

I hear they go some.

 

[goreblast]

Ive got an XDA and XDA2 sitting at home doing nothing. It was a thought. Mianly was thinking of the seti and it running on very old 486 systems. etc

 

[rich99million]

It may seem ludicrous now but who'd have thought 10 years ago that we'd be using graphics cards and games consoles to do Folding@Home?


Personally I can't wait for a F@H capable handheld device - though you'd have to have some pretty tough gloves to hold it I guess, even better if they could get it to run off excess body fat

 

[Stan_Lite]

even better if they could get it to run off excess body fat

I could have dozens of them strapped to my body

Stan

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I could have dozens of them strapped to my body

More surface area means more crunching.

[eastern European accent]
Eat, eat! You're skin and bones.
[/eastern European accent]

 

[VeNT]

ahh but acording to chaos all natural surface areas are infinite like the coastline.

 

[lay-z-boy]

what about a George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machine.

I hear they go some.

I'm so proud of it i put folding @ home on it.

 

[goreblast]

So there are no DC clients that can run on a Poclet PC, what about FAH monitoring software?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

So there are no DC clients that can run on a Poclet PC, what about FAH monitoring software?

Any web-based monitor would work, as would any (are there any) that run in Java. If you were feeling extraordinarily adventurous you could also complie a copy of FahMon for yourself. These would all have to communicate with a remote client over a network.