Quote from: mark299 on October 26, 2018, 05:11:10 AM

This is an interesting project, the videos demonstrate the use case and concept very well. I also see the credentials of people involved will make this a strong project. The video said about using 1 GHz of processing power from each smartphone in the network, does this mean it locks away this processing power for the network or there is a smart way of only using unused processing power, there by not impacting the owner of the smartphone with other day to day activities ?
Secondly, we also need to know on the security and safety of this access. I am sure we will have more technical information that talk about this and how the multi system resources are cumulatively used for big tasks that a super computer will be required to process in an efficient way.

thanks for your comment.

Yes, the smarter which a lot more sophisticated algorithm will take place for NATEE SDK to ensure that is no impact on the performance, the mobile device will still able to operate smoothly, however, our NATEE SDK can predict and suggest on how much computing can be drawn from the mobile devices. We use native C/C++ to do the development which means we can drive deep down to hardware resources such as CPU/GPU Core / Memory. Technically, one CPU core can handle 2 threads, we can ensure that we optimize the usage of the CPU Core.

While on the other hand, we can see rapid growth in the technology of mobile's CPU/GPU. Let's look at the new iPhone, A12 equipped with 4 GPU Cores.

together with the development of 5G / Edge that would soon be in reality, we foresee that mobile would still dominant in term of resources available. However, the design of the complex algorithm to manage the network must take place and that's why we've started the research collaboration with one of the elite universities in the world which is Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (Currently, sitting at 12nd of world top universities) on the following topic

   - Algorithm Design of Mobile Decentralized Computing Systems

which will also include the following topics

  * Incentive Mechanism
  * Coalition Formation
  * Stochastic Programming to handle the uncertainty of user behavior

The founders CEO / CTO / COO and other team members are all developers and highly experienced in IT, especially the CEO who is the expertise in Super Computing / Cluster server with 10 years working in IBM on Parallel computing/file management system.

With the full house of advisors from several domains and Professor Dusit Niyato who is an IEEE Fellow. This NATEE Project might probably have the strongest team ever. Please see research topics / publications and research interests from Prof. Dusit in his link.

based on experices from team members and advisors, im sure that it's already answer your 2nd question by now.

Please feel free to ask me if you'd like to get more technical answers from me.