Use the processing power and logical qualities of a smartphone when it is not actively being used by its user, and for a good cause? It seems an efficient idea and at least peculiar. The key is that, more than an idea, it is a reality thanks to the application Power Sleep developed by the South Korean company Samsung A way to help the scientific community to process data in investigations against cancer andAlzheimer while the user is asleep.
And the key to Power Sleep is to act for the user as if it were an a application-alarm-clock to use. In this way, the user only needs to set the alarm at the time they want to wake up and make sure that the terminal is connected to the power to avoid battery discharge and consequent shutdown, as well as connect to the WiFi network to avoid costs if your Internet rate data consumption is exceeded. From this moment the Power Sleep application begins to work on its true mission, as long as the battery is charged to 100 for 100
With this, the user would be helping the University of Vienna in its scientific projects.And it is that this university would use the logical power of the terminal once it is fully loaded to process information from DNA sequences A process focused on decryption of these sequences so that they can be analyzed by scientists who are developing projects against cancer andAlzheimer's at said university.
In this way, the user's terminal receives files that do not usually exceed MB and uses its processor to carry out the process of decryption, returning the resulting data to the university through Internet All while the user sleep peacefully. Thus helping the community passively by simply allowing, with this application, the device can be used as a remote computer A supercomputer system through everyone thanks to the application Power Sleep
According to the description of this application, neither Samsung nor the University of Vienna collect data from the user of his terminal. And it is that they would only have access to the processor of the terminal in order to help these scientific causes, without collecting data from messages, emails, images or contacts. At least supposedly.
With all of this, the user can give his support to these causes by giving up the logical capacity of his terminal when he is not using it, only using the application as a alarm clock Of course, it is a somewhat basic alarm clock, missing several options such as set different alarms according to days or customize other issues. Of course the main objective is to allow remote access to decrypt DNA sequences
In short, a curious way to help selflessly. The Power Sleep application is available only for terminals Android updated to a version equal to or greater than 2.3 Full download free from Google Play
