
Researchers from UC San Diego partnered with Google to convert retired Pixel smartphones into low-cost computing clusters. The team strips devices down to motherboards, replaces Android with Linux, and deploys orchestration platforms like Kubernetes. Twenty retired phones can support applications used by 75 students, reducing e-waste and hardware demand.
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Retired Google Pixel phones become private cloud cluster