Samsung Austria has teamed up with cancer researchers at the University of Vienna on a creative way to help them be more productive in decoding the masses of protein sequence data they collect.
Power Sleep is a free Android app that crowdsources computing power from the processors of idle phones. After downloading the app, users plug in their phone, make sure it’s connected to a WiFi network, set the app’s alarm and hop into bed.
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During the night, the app transfers a small data package to the phone (an average size of 1 MB), which processes it and sends it back. Each package takes 30 minutes to an hour to process.
Samsung says the app only uses the phone’s hardware and doesn’t interact with any data on the phone. It’s an iteration of the BOINC platform, which does the same thing but for a range of causes beyond medical research.
