Ramanujan

Apollo guidance computer had a CPU which was only as powerful as a modern scientific calculator. Modern smartphones and smart TVs are at-least million times more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer, and most of the time they are idle. This project aims to utilize the idle computation power of these devices.

Any device which has a CPU that can do basic arithmetic operations and can connect to the internet can be added on the network. This includes smartphones, smart TVs, smart-watches, smart speakers, smart refrigerators, smart washing machines, and so on. Currently, the network supports only Android devices, linux devices, Windows devices, and macOS devices.

BOINC is an amazing platform that allows users to donate their computation power to various scientific projects. However, for adding a new kind of computation on the network, the project owner has to write a new client for the BOINC network, and the devices on the network that can contribute to the computation have to download and install the new client.