MIT brings supercomputing processing power to cell phones

Researchers at MIT have developed an app that performs complex engineering calculations (fluid dynamics, stress analysis, etc.) on regular smart phones.

Their approach is unique in that they run numerous calculations on a supercomputer, load the results into their app, and the app then calculates the best approximation based on user input.

I think that this is one of the first of many software applications to come in which a computer makes a “best guess” instead of performing time-consuming, precise calculations.

Read the full article here:
(http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/supercomputer-smart-phones-0901.html)