App uses a network of smartphones to help research cancer: your phone crunches numbers while your sleep
The company DreamLab says will allow users to "donate" their smartphone's processing power while their owners are sleeping: "Cancer affects so many of the people we love. But what if you could help by speeding up cancer research, simply by going to bed. Researchers are hindered by limited access to supercomputers. So that’s where you and the DreamLab app come in. It’s a free to purchase app* that uses the processing power of your idle phone to solve a piece of the cancer research puzzle. If just 1,000 people used the app, cancer puzzles would be solved 30 times faster." http://www.vodafone.com.au/aboutvodafone/vodafoneaustraliafoundation/dreamlab "When a phone is plugged in and fully charged, it is sent a tiny genetic sequencing task by Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research to solve. When it is completed, the data is sent back to the Garvan Institute, which can use it as part of their research. Users can select what project they want to cont...