Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware
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UC San Diego researchers, working with Google, are repurposing retired Pixel phones into small data center nodes by stripping them down and running Linux instead of Android. Surprisingly, three-year-old phone chips can outperform some server hardware per core, and clusters of 25–50 phones can match a full dual-socket server.
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