Friday, December 5, 2008
Week 14 Reading Notes
Coming from a energy consulting background, the comparison between Cloud Computing and the utility grid was particularly interesting to me. One of the advantages of the grid though, is that you can be paid for generating electricity and returning it to the grid. For example, there is a process called cogeneration where fuel is burned to both produce heat and electricity. In some cases the fuel can be sold back to the grid, often in the form of a credit of some kind. I wonder whether a similar idea will one day be applied to cloud computing. For example, using a cloud computer processing to create a web-app that enriches the cloud could earn you some sort of discounted access fees. Just a thought.
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Hey Eric,
your credit idea for cloud computing is something I have been thinking about with regard to distributed GIS--if,for example, my tiny, no-budget library had a collection of historical maps showing the changes to our community over the last hundred years or so, and we gave them to the "group," could that be the price of admission for access to the GIS service network for our patrons?
You know, I;ve been reading a lot of articles lately that talk about our society reverting to an oral/verbal culture...maybe we'll also go back to the barter system? Especially now that our money isn't worth anything anyway: )
I thought the credit ieda for cloud computing very very interesting. My question would be are cloud services all considered to be open sourse so that others may work on them, like Wikipedia? I would guess that this would change from program to program, but in the end, a work for credit system would be nice.
Wow, that is really interesting, but I do know that there are many places that will use your extra processing power from your computer for research like BONIC At Berkley
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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