GreenByte: The Global Computing Cloud
GreenByte: The Global Computing Cloud
Q1: We would welcome any suggestions for strategies that we could implement in order to form alliances with hardware and software manufacturers, as well as environmental policy groups. Any additional feedback, suggestions for improvement, and commentary is welcome.
Idea Description
Millions of computers sit idle for hours each day and thousands of pedabytes of space remain untapped on hard-drives around the world. What if these existing resources could be better leveraged? How much energy would be saved? GreenByte is the answer. A framework for the world's first Global Computing Cloud (a grid made up of millions of individual workstations across the globe) and an energy credit market where data storage and processing power are traded among corporations and individuals alike, GreenByte will lower the barrier to entry for mass computing services, and increase the energy efficiency of the networked world.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
Initially, we will launch a publicity campaign to galvanize grass-roots support for a global distributed computing grid, as well as an accompanying open standard. We will launch an open-source software project to develop the core of the GreenByte client software and work with network hardware vendors (Cisco), and operating system vendors (Apple, Microsoft, RedHat) to build the GreenByte Cloud standard into their next generation products. As the grid grows, we will launch the GreenByte Exchange, where computing credits can be bought and sold. We expect the initial Ideablob capital to fund the startup costs for the GreenByte open-source software initiative.
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Post a commentHow does this reduce overall energy footprint? Computers sitting idle are using considerably less power than those running with full CPU. Arguably, a purpose built computation grid would be more efficient than the ad-hoc one you are proposing because it's creator will have huge incentives to make it that way. Wouldn't that better reduce overall energy use?
COMPUTERS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD ! ! ! ! ! ! !
SkyNet=Terminator, right?
Excellent idea! I hope this makes it into the next heat!
Excellent idea! I hope this makes it into the next heat!
Sorry for the typo-filled double submission. In fact, entire blocs can disrupt the cloud--if necessary. A critical mass can affect the cloud by disconnecting--a truly democratic operation!
@ RecoveryID aha, yes like ShyNet but since it exists on all of our own computers, we can collectively pull the plug by shutting down our computers. No war game scenario necessary.
@ RecoveryID aha, yes like ShyNet but since it exists on all of our own computers, we can collectively pull the plug by shutting down our computers. No war game scenario necessary.
@ Rehxfei What is unique about this project is that it is working with the open source and data portability movement. As an exercise in edge computing and decentralization, there is no centralized system that can be abused, exploited, or taken over. Unlike Google, who can hand over private information to a government or a buyer (as it has done in China), there is no block of data that can be handed over, because it's all in our hands to begin with!
I like it in a Sky net kind of way :)
^^^^^^^^^^ Sounds kinda scary. What does this imply for the world. At the same time it implies more freedom, it also implies more control over mass populaces. One thing you can observe from history is that the easier is to communicate faster, the more efficiently the few can control the many. Just some food for thought I guess. AND SEEING AS HOW I LIKE THE IMPLICATION OF OF BEING ABLE TO LEARN MORE MUCH FASTER FROM THIS SYSTEM, I VOTE FOR IT!!! Later ^_^
Supercomputing from your cell phone? What's exciting about this idea is that as the cloud evolves, it can serve as a middleware virtualization platform. That is to say, you can run a virtual computer in the cloud from any device with a network connection. And with the development of higher bandwidth wireless technologies, from WiMax's multi-megabit connections to 3G LTE (Long Term Evolution), Ultrawideband promises to make mobile cloud computing as seamless as the desktop experience itself. Through automated provisioning management that leverages the surplus of available computing resources on our personal and corporate computers, GreenByte can not only provide an elegant solution to the problem of energy usage and e-waste but pave the way to supercomputing in the palm of your hand. Ima…moregine the possibilities that the magnitude of the combined synergy of the cloud would offer in the fields of research, artificial intelligence, mega-computation, and beyond--like SETI on steroids--with an elastic network that adjusts to accommodate demand--on-demand--th…moree sky is the limit.
Idea submitted by: Brady Brim-DeForest & Drew Baldwin