BOINC distributed computing is now available for Android devices.

What is distributed computing, I think, everyone knows on Habré. If not, here is a great article where everything is told in the most detailed way, including the history and description of various projects / platforms. Among others, the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform is also mentioned. A little copy-paste: "BOINC is a ready-made binding (typical server components + client) for projects on network computing, which makes it much easier to start them, although it does not completely eliminate mental labor, since a number of server modules need to be prepared for a specific task." So, if until now the calculations were carried out only on a PC, now this platform is also available for mobile devices based on Android.

And after all, there is nothing surprising: many mobile devices are constantly connected to the Web, and their performance is much higher than what computers of 5-7 years old (not to mention older models) could "give out". The BOINC Android client is suitable for both smartphones and tablets. The most interesting thing is that unofficial applications are available, such as NativeBOINC and AndroBOINC , as well as the official application that has appeared recently.
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True, for the official version there is so far only an alpha release , so you cannot count on reliable operation of this application.

The developers believe that the main idea of ​​the application is the work of distributed projects not only on powerful hardware, but also on hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mobile devices. In the above applications there is a shutdown function, if the phone is not connected to a WiFi network (of course, the developers understand that very few mobile phone owners will be happy with the busy GPRS | EDGE | 3G channel).

In general, now every owner of a mobile device can become a participant in the search for extraterrestrial life, the project of calculating the climate model or super-weapons of work on finding a new formula for an effective medical drug to fight cancer.