Recently, I have rediscovered a program/app which a classmate of me once told me about a couple of years ago. BOINC (Berkeley-whatever, just DuckDuckGo it ).
If installed and set up, the BOINC Android app* will run if your phone is in standby and charging. It uses the unused computing power of your phone to do calculations for scientific projects. I signed up for World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.com), where you can donate computing power to e.g. Ebola or AIDS research, but there are plenty other projects as well, like decrypting Enigma-messages from WWII.
I think it would be a good idea if Fairphoners would support this!
I was recently involved in a discussion about a (theoretical) project that could integrate well with BOINC:
Servers that constantly run some useful calculations used as radiant heaters for homes in super cold regions. Two birds with one stone: No energy wasted cooling down servers and affordable heating for people living in the arctic circle.
On the second of February 2009 I have sent my first result to World Community Grid.
In april 2010 Team Top40.nl was created. Since then I am a member of this team.
So it is a great idea to get more people involved in BOINC and World Community Grid.
the start of the jagged line is when I changed the settings to what I described above
the interval where the line is less jagged is when I went for a bike ride and had my phone plugged in to my solar power bank. BOINC was not active but I contributed to OpenWLANMap, Mozilla Location Service (via Mozilla Stumbler) and OpenStreetMap (via Street Complete) instead.
I’m using Battery Charge Limit
Interestingly BOINC doesn’t show up in the battery settings at all even though it obviously uses a lot.
100% CPU usage (I probably should decrease that to 90%)
pause when normal usage is over 50%
max 50% RAM
But I have a question: How does it come that you have already more than 500 returned results only with your phone in the same time I have only 27 results with my phone, my MacBook and my 1000€ gaming PC combined (although those 27 results were only from my PC)??? And, moreover: Why do you have 45 days runtime when this thread is only hardly three weeks old???
ARE YOU CHEATING?!
The runtime is not the actual days you are contributing.
But is roughly the amount of days multiplied by the cores/threads you are using for Boinc.
I started in february 2009 and my Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) 43:284:17:53:35
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