Android support?

Message boards : Number crunching : Android support?

To post messages, you must log in.

AuthorMessage
kasdashdfjsah

Send message
Joined: 29 Jan 24
Posts: 15
Credit: 61,040,373
RAC: 36,371
  
Message 1978 - Posted: 28 Dec 2024, 23:55:59 UTC

When will this project get Android support?
ID: 1978 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote
KeithBriggs

Send message
Joined: 12 Jan 25
Posts: 7
Credit: 27,372,119
RAC: 745,919
   
Message 2007 - Posted: 30 Jan 2025, 19:41:36 UTC - in response to Message 1978.  

I got curious ever since I first read your question. I took some time to look into it.

I started running one CPU task on my old I5-3570K and after 16 hours it's at 40%. Coincidently, it will take a total of 40 hours total to complete. That's running 3 out of 4 cores with one core dedicated to GPU processing. Geekbench 5 reports that I5 rated at 950 for one core and 3600 for all 4 cores so I used 2700 as a proxy for 3 cores.

My current phone is a Galaxy A52 5G for which Geekbench 5 rates 630 for 1 core and 1900 for all 8 cores (not nearly as powerful in multicore compared to the I5). Using 1900 vs 2700, it would take 57 hours to complete a single task (40 * 2700 / 1900) on the phone.

Newer technology is far more efficient from a power standpoint the I5 runs at 77W and the Samsung runs at 5W if you were to compare 15 phones to the desktop the phones would win out handily.

My 4060 Ti runs work units in under 5 minutes. It will process 500 WUs in the time the 3 core CPU completes one and it runs ~100W (again, newer tech). It would process 715 WU in the time my phone would do one CPU WU.

Lastly, I did do Einstein WUs back in the day with an android and after not too long the battery ballooned out. They are not designed for constant heavy use thermally. It was a phone I didn't care about thankfully.

Not worth the trouble on the CPU side of things IMHO

The GPU side, my phone is 450 GFLOPS but only OpenCL 2.0 and my 4060 Ti is 22,100 GFLOPS or 49 times faster. I hope this is the correct way to think about things but if it is, then my phone's GPU would do a WU in about 4 hours or 6 WU per day. That's doable but again the heat issue is what I would be afraid of.
ID: 2007 · Rating: 0 · rate: Rate + / Rate - Report as offensive    Reply Quote

Message boards : Number crunching : Android support?


©2025 Sergei Chernykh