In 2016 tech developer b2Cloud won a Design 100 award for an app that networked Android phones left on over-night to research data for the Garvan Institute, (CMM May 19 2016). 122 000 people participated and their phones’ processing power were used to make 75 million calculations for a cancer research project, completing the crunching of data at twice the rate of standard computing time.
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