Hello Community,

the idea of GridComputing is not the newest, but the possibilities in the last years raised exponentially In most cases the grids consists of some hundreds high-speed, high-cost multi-core cpu's. But image if we use the mobile device mass-market technology of today with smaller processing power but multiply the amount of devices by ~1 Million .....

So, lets do a simple calculations:
Today we have at about 100 Million mobile devices just in Germany .
There may be like 1 Billion mobile devices in the world.
Some assumptions:

1. 25% has Android or similar with a Grid-Software running on it.
2. 50% have the Grid-Software enabled.
3. Each device may have an average computing-power (desktop-cpu equivalent) of 50Mhz.

The resulting computing-power is at about 6,25 PetaHz (6,25 * 10[sup]15[/sup] Hz ) what is probably at about the


Years ago, the connection speed of mobile devices was pretty limited, but today using 3G / UMTS broadband connections, this limitation is dismissed. Also the sale-rates and processing speeds of mobile devices have increased with noticeable pace. Today we can play 3D-Games on an middle-class device, when not many years ago we had just monochrome displays.

The field of GridComputing on mobile-devices will provide some extremely interesting issues/applications in the future



Nikita Ivanov from the Free & OpenSource JAVA-based GridComputing Software GridGain project posted his thoughts on his blog.

Regards,
plusminus

There's more than 1 billion phones in China alone

the battery life is a big concern at current stage. otherwise this is a very good idea to utilize idle mobile cpu cycles

I think we'll eventually see some interesting things happen in this area, especially as the next generation of mobile devices become more common place. Also, if I recall the latest numbers actually put the number of mobile phones in the world right above 3 billion--that's roughly equivalent to half of the world's population. I know in the United States there are supposedly more mobile phones in use than people, since many individuals carry more than one phone.

Ken

the collective power of 3 billion cpus!!! that's unimaginable
if nearby handsets (bluetooth/wifi) connect spontaneously they could build a 'collaborative sound blaster' out of many many small amplifiers and speakers. the more people join the party the louder the music plays...

is this filesharing / piracy if just one guy at the party bought that song?

If they all are friends no ...

Regards,
plusminus