1. Volunteer computing PC owners donate idle cycles to science projects
Volunteership
0.7 million PCs (out of 1.5 billion possible)
> 12 PetaFLOPS
that’s more than all clouds and grids combined
BOINC
open-source software platform for volunteer computing
developed at UCB
used by almost all volunteer computing projects

2. Volunteer computing projects
(gravity wave, pulsar discovery)
IBM World Community Grid (various biomedical)
(biomedical)
ClimatePrediction.net (climate change prediction)
... many others

3. Goal: volunteer computing on Android devices (while plugged in)
Why?
there are 5 billion mobile devices
their capabilities are converging to those of PCs (2 GFLOPS, 1-2 GB RAM)
they are 10X more energy-efficient than PCs

4. (Java/Android toolkit)
BOINC on Android
GUI
(Java/Android toolkit)
This doesn’t exist yet
RPC over local TCP connection
BOINC client
(C++, compiled for ARM
This exists and works
communicate with servers
via HTTP
Application
(compiled for ARM)
There is a working example

5. The proposed project Design and implement a BOINC GUI for Android
it might look something like this:
Package for the Android Market
packages for specific projects
Contact person:
David Anderson
UCB Space Sciences Lab