CloudTom's Hardwareabout 4 hours ago
Old phones repurposed as low-cost computing clusters
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Researchers from UCSD and Google recycled old Pixel smartphones into a low-cost data center. The study found that three-year-old phones deliver higher single-core performance than servers like the Asus RS720A-E11. Stripped of non-essential components and running Linux, 25 to 50 phones matched server computing power.
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