This might not even be technically possible, but it's just an idea.

Since BOINC can't be installed directly on iOS, it would be awesome if you could connect your Iphone or Ipad to your Mac, and use the mobile device's compute power to run more BOINC tasks on your Mac that way.

Since the M4 iPad Pro at least supports thunderbolt through it's USB C port, and probably other Apple mobile devices too, this might be possible with the right BOINC client programming, with enough bandwidth available.

What do you all think of this idea, ignoring how "out there" and impossible this idea might be to realize?

In reply to kasdashdfjsah's message of 28 Dec 2024:

This might not even be technically possible, but it's just an idea.

Since BOINC can't be installed directly on iOS, it would be awesome if you could connect your Iphone or Ipad to your Mac, and use the mobile device's compute power to run more BOINC tasks on your Mac that way.

Since the M4 iPad Pro at least supports thunderbolt through it's USB C port, and probably other Apple mobile devices too, this might be possible with the right BOINC client programming, with enough bandwidth available.

What do you all think of this idea, ignoring how "out there" and impossible this idea might be to realize?

That's an interesting idea, however I don't think it's possible: you still need an application on your iPhone and/or iPad to run the actual workload.
You can't just connect the device and use it as an additional CPU.

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