Accelerating Innovation in Cloud & Mobile Computing
March 27, 2014
Grazed from EEJournal. Author: Bruce Kleinman.
In part one of this article series, I suggested that datacenter architectures could benefit from revisiting the parallel computing innovations of the 1980s, and I waxed lyrically about the Transputer, which struck a chord with a surprising number of readers – including one reader who wrote “we built a fabulous Transputer board … didn’t sell many of them … I haven’t thought about it for decades.” It was a heartfelt email, though I am not clear if that was because of his fond memory of the Transputer or the commercial failure of his product. In any event, I firmly stand by my belief that much could be learned and leveraged from revolutionary parallel computing architectures.
In mobile computing, I observed that quad+ core CPUs are vastly underutilized in the majority of real-world applications (the notable exception being gaming). Virtually all of these apps are built on a simple client-server model, taking fractional advantage of mobile CPU horsepower…
I hinted that I would propose a “grand alliance” of cloud computing and billions of powerful, waiting mobile CPUs in a Universal Computing Surface: computation seamlessly farmed out across datacenters and multi-core mobile devices, with the hardware and operating system optimally assigning/balancing workloads based on CPU horsepower, memory capacity/bandwidth and communication latency/bandwidth…
Read more from the source @ http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20140327-innovation2/
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