INVESTIGADORES
ZUNINO SUAREZ Alejandro Octavio
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Are Smartphones Really Useful for Scientific Computing?
Autor/es:
RODRIGUEZ, J. M.; MATEOS, C.; ZUNINO, A.
Lugar:
Córdoba
Reunión:
Conferencia; Second International Conference, ADNTIIC 2011; 2011
Resumen:
Smartphones are a new kind of mobile devices that allow users to take
their office anywhere and anytime with them. The number of smartphones
is rapidly growing. Most of the time their capabilities are underused,
therefore several authors have studied how to exploit smartphones for
assisting scientific computing. Yet, as far as we know, there is no
study aimed at determining whether smartphones can do a significant
contribution to this area as resource providers. This paper shows that
smartphones are not that slow when compared to standard mobile devices,
such as notebooks. Furthermore, a notebook running on battery only
performed 8 times more work than a low-end smartphone before their
batteries run out. However, the low-end smartphone is 145 times slower
than the notebook, and the smartphone battery has less capacity than the
notebook battery. Since smartphones can execute large amount of work
running on battery, we think that smartphones can have a major role in
building the next-generation HPC infrastructures.