Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it’s winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.
Depends on your workload, pi digits calculation for example require a lot of compute, but the bandwidth required to communicate the result is trivial. Not saying every workload is the same, but compute to bandwidth relationship is not linear
So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that’s probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea “cloud computing”?
Here me out: a global computing cooperative –
Collectively owned servers and gaming PCs are run at max power wherever it’s winter at the time, streaming the data to where it is needed.
There, you’re out.
That’s a lot of bandwidth, but it sounds like a good idea.
Depends on your workload, pi digits calculation for example require a lot of compute, but the bandwidth required to communicate the result is trivial. Not saying every workload is the same, but compute to bandwidth relationship is not linear
I mean data center excess heat is already used for district heating and that’s a shared resource. Not free or communal computing resource though.
Huh, I hadn’t heard about this idea and a quick search on DDG returned this link: https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/08/sustainable-data-centre-heating/
Interesting!
So it sends data to/from a remote place? A place that’s probably far away, kinda like those fluffy-looking things in the sky? May I suggest that you name your idea “cloud computing”?
Lookup Folding @ Home or boinc. It’s basically the same thing.