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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers (opens in new tab)

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A great new lease of life for your old smartphone? Google teams up with university researchers to create low-cost data centers out of 2,000 old Pixel phones

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This Google-backed ‘phone cluster computing’ project is turning retired Pixels into low-cost Linux data centers — as UCSD researchers say a 2,000-phone cluster ...

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