Android Supercomputer?
I once told you that when college students lay their hands on the Android OS a lot of good things will happen. According to Engadget, some MIT kids are working on creating a supercomputer on Android OS.
A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it’d take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google’s mobile OS, but if you aren’t falling for that one, it’s also designed to “let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems.” Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours.
Their source code is also opensource, in case your are feeling geeky enough and may want to dive in.
Source MIT: rbAPPmit Client Software
