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SETI@car
Steal a few cycles from your ECU; find aliens. | |
Have your car's Engine Control Unit give up a few cycles when it's less busy to crunch some numbers for the SETI project or help find a cure for cancer.
When you take in your car to be serviced, you could download more data to be crunched and upload your previous results.
SETI@HOME
http://en.wikipedia...ki/SETI#SETI.40home
Description of the SETI@HOME project [monojohnny, Aug 04 2006]
Engine Management Systems
http://en.wikipedia...e_management_system
[monojohnny, Aug 04 2006]
[link]
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I'm not quite sure this is how an ECU works... |
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You'd have to flash additional programs onto the ECU of course. |
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Should be able to handle it; its a microprocessor at heart... |
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The cost of setting up an infrastructure for this is far greater than the cost of running a few number crunchers in a computer farm. Microcontrollers just aren't built for this application. |
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True enough, but hardly a concern for the research team here at the 'bakery. |
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With a lot of WiFi and enough autos running your program, you wouldn't need a home computer, just live next to the freeway. |
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"Honey, thats a video link, I won't be able to run it until rush hour starts." |
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ok maybe an incentive to the car-makers here; in order for them to make room for additional memory and program space... |
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Instead of (as well as?) running the SETI program; pick another mathematical problem which lends itself to grid computing...perhaps airflow modelling or economic modelling....something useful to the car manufacturer themselves... |
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Then we run into privacy issues I guess.... |
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i doubt the processing power of a current car's computers is anywhere near a pentium 1 pc |
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SETI@home is perhaps the biggest hoax perpetrated on the general public. |
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Thousands of PCs providing free computing to discover what? A signal that there is life on other worlds? Quite what will we do with that information? It's not like we can go visit them any time soon. |
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There are so many more deserving problems that this effort could go into. |
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(Yeah, yeah, I'm a sci fi buff, and I really do think there is life on other planets, but we have some rather more pressing problems on our hands than talking to the stars.) |
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[DrCurry] - I see your point. There are similar projects (cure for cancer etc) than use the same methods as the SETI@Home project; which people could opt for rather than the SETI program. |
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//i doubt the processing power of a current car's computers is anywhere near a pentium 1 pc// |
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True. But I don't suppose that matters. For instance - plenty of the computers on spacecraft work on lower-specs than pentiums. |
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Actually, vehicle computers are quite fast and run
millions of lines of code these days to deal with
emissions, handle lookup tables for the fuel you put
in, etc. |
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