DreamLab
DreamLab is a 2015 launched Volunteer Computing - Mobile App of the Imperial College London and the Vodafone Foundation .
description
The app helps to research cancer and COVID-19 and to find drugs. With the consent of the user, DreamLab accesses part of the processor power of the device at night while the owner is charging his smartphone in order to accelerate the calculations of the AI algorithm by the research laboratory of the ICL (Imperial College London). The aim is to find medicines and food molecules that are already available that could help those infected with corona. The performance of 100,000 smartphones would achieve the annual performance of all research computers at Imperial College in just three months with a nighttime running time of six hours. Vodafone customers will not be charged any fees for data volume or roaming until September 1, 2020. Other users can specify the amount of data to be donated, with existing WLAN connections naturally incurring no costs apart from slightly increased electricity costs. The security of personal data is always guaranteed.
The app was developed in 2015 by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney and the Vodafone Foundation.
As of May 2020, the project had over 490,000 registered users.
With Folding @ home there is a comparable initiative for computers of all kinds, an overview of such projects can be found in the list of projects for distributed computing .
Web links
literature
- Veselkov K, Gonzalez G, Shahad A, Galea D, Mirnezami R, Youssef J, Bronstein M & Laponogov I. HyperFoods: Machine-intelligent searching for cancer-beating molecules in foods. Nature Scientific Reports, 2019, 1-11 [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196733/new-covid-19-project-will-power-smartphones/
- ↑ a b DreamLab. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ https://www.onlinekosten.de/news/vodafone-dreamlab-app-buendelt-smartphone-processoren-fuer-corona-forschung_222268.html
- ↑ Corona-KI. Retrieved May 3, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ DreamLab FAQ. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Economy, trade & finance: the app lets smartphones work for corona research at night. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .