They HAVE chance with specially tailored projects and tasks. 2009/10/27, [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > If it is to slow to beat the replacement that is sent out after the > deadline, it is completely worthless as no science would be accepted. > > Yes, there are some tasks that are integer based. These at least have a > chance of returning valid work before the deadline. The ones that require > floating point have no chance at all. > > Natively Integer and non-CPU intensive tasks are the only ones that should > be seriously considered for porting. Integer tasks need to know if the > phone is running on batteries or not. > > A phone version is of strictly limited usefulness as many projects will not > be able to use the devices. > > > jm7 > > > > Petr Hájek > <hajek.p...@gmail > .com> To > Sent by: [email protected] > <boinc_dev-bounce cc > [email protected] > u> Subject > Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile > Phones - please test on your Java > > 10/27/2009 02:18 phone > PM > > > > > > > > > > > Exactly. And that is about what I am speaking - let us say at least SOME > persons would donate time of their phones. > > For John: > > You are right, however it is possible to prgoramm many tasks in whole > numbers - for example some MP3 en/decoders are able to do that... > > WE are all BOINCng because we want to, so even if it will be very slow, it > would be nice to know, that man is doing something important for mankind. > > Native applications are great deal, however they are not portable - it may > be acceptable on x86 Windows wuth 95 % share, however moble platforms are > EXTEMEKLY different! They even use different processors so who would > compile > tens of versions for all mobile phones? Nobody I expect... > > 2009/10/27, Eric Myers <[email protected]>: > > > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, [email protected] wrote: > > > >> > >> Everyone I know wears the phone on the belt or carries it in the purse > all > >> of the time, and only puts it on charger when it needs to be on the > >> charger. > >> > > > > But it could end up on the charger overnight, which is a long time > > to do work. And it would still be ready the next day. > > > > -Eric > > > > > > -- > S Pozdravem > Petr Hájek > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > >
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