New app utilises phone processor for medical research while user sleeps

<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghettejvipIpynlG82u5K333QPboL_UAbiSc0SwpJ6TZgqkSApdHaeNNP5rLgil-6FTlPGuMOGD8IUdbwFObuI70B0spc_nr3DNjJKJzDPKC-OThm4KF4uaWn9WuJKn48azBikuFbFp-Q/s640/blogger-image--1990612407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghettejvipIpynlG82u5K333QPboL_UAbiSc0SwpJ6TZgqkSApdHaeNNP5rLgil-6FTlPGuMOGD8IUdbwFObuI70B0spc_nr3DNjJKJzDPKC-OThm4KF4uaWn9WuJKn48azBikuFbFp-Q/s640/blogger-image--1990612407.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A new app has been developed that allows users to donate the processing power of their mobile phone for scientific research while they sleep.</span><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mobile phones lie dormant when users are asleep, which means that millions of powerful processors are going unused for hours at a time.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The University of Vienna's Faculty of Life Sciences and <a href="http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tags/samsung" style="cursor: pointer; ">Samsung</a> Austria are teaming up to tap the potential of all that unused processing power.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They developed the 'Power Sleep' app which provides users with a simple alarm clock function.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the alarm is set and the user's phone is plugged in, fully charged and connected to a Wi-Fi network, the app begins to process data sent from the Similarity Matrix of Proteins (SIMAP) database.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Power Sleep is connected to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC), a network that links around 60,000 PCs worldwide and harnesses their processing power for computational-based research.</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The app can be downloaded from <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.samsung.powersleep&hl=en" style="cursor: pointer; " target="_blank">Play Store</a>.</span></p><p></p><p></p></div>

New app utilises phone processor for medical research while user sleeps

A new app has been developed that allows users to donate the processing power of their mobile phone for scientific research while they sleep...

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