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Intel Research Berkeley has been working on a project called “CloneCloud.” The idea is to offload processing to a cloned copy of the phone that lives in the cloud. Pretty cool. To make it work, you have to clone the data and the full application context of each smartphone and manage it centrally.
The challenge is that the phone now lives in two places – in your hand and in the cloud – and you have to make sure the state of the phone and the state of the clone is consistent. But if you do it right, smartphones are no longer islands of segmented data but rather a loose federation of compute power with shared data.
Here’s the paper http://berkeley.intel-research.net/bgchun/clonecloud-hotos09.pdf
Here’s an article about it http://www.rethink-wireless.com/?article_id=1363
Thanks for sharing those research paper. This is really a pragmatic and very old school thought. In the past when glass house was very much with us, dumb terminal was the way to access informations. Then we wanted to have a personal touch on it. Yes the PC, workstation and all. Then wireless phone and duplication of same computing tends to capture our brain away from real work.
I’ve always thought that cell phone, computer terminal, kiosk, TV all should mostly be presentation devices… Since the dawn of PC, and when x286, paging, and hard disk came to us, not sure how many PC, hard disk, tube I had to junk. Yep, I’m trying to leave a huge footprint for the next generation to say “Dude you guys were really
dumb”.
Since things are converging …, yes time for cloud computing.
Comment by Prokash Sinha — May 28, 2009 @ 7:26 am