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CloudTom's Hardware1 day ago
Old Pixel phones repurposed as low-cost computing clustersResearchers from UC San Diego and Google stripped old Pixel smartphones of batteries, displays, and cameras, keeping only the motherboard. They replaced Android with a general-purpose Linux distro. The three-year-old phones outperformed servers like the Asus RS720A-E11 on single-core SPEC benchmarks, offering a low-cost data center alternative.
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