alt Hacker NewsI guess you imagine a world like Skype supernodes (Skype gave that up more than a decade ago) or Tor nodes (Tor is used by a tiny fraction of internet users).
Not saying it can't be done, but the effort is humongous.
I guess you imagine a world like Skype supernodes (Skype gave that up more than a decade ago) or Tor nodes (Tor is used by a tiny fraction of internet users).
Not saying it can't be done, but the effort is humongous.
no, I mean I saw multiple companies at this point with their entier K8S cluster... is smaller than single new macbook pro :/
now, if you have 100,000 users with latest iPhone, say you use 10GB RAM in each, using A16 chip with 1.9 TFLOPS, each with 5G connection
this is 1 Peta-Byte RAM + 0.25 Peta-FLOPs GPU + 4 TB / second bandwidth
at zero cost (no-upfront, no-maintenance, users pay for, upgrade, and maintain their phones working, pay for internet, charging with electricity, cooling? - thanks!)
... it goes even wilder if you use macbooks
... and if you consider say mid-size town in China with population of 15 million, you go Exa-scale
and consider that for now iPhones are just sitting idle. for now.