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| mounted IR detectors (6 digits). What about a touch-screen interface ([[User:Yosun|Yosun]] | | mounted IR detectors (6 digits). What about a touch-screen interface ([[User:Yosun|Yosun]] |
| 18:47, 2 September 2012 (PDT)) </p> ===Team Idea 4: High performance distributed research | | 18:47, 2 September 2012 (PDT)) </p> |
| computing (for science, business, etc)=== WHO: Proposed by Roger Pincombe (OkGoDoIt), but
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| very open for suggestions and discussion<br /><br /> WHAT: Projects like Folding@home
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| (http://folding.stanford.edu), Seti@Home (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) and
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| LHC@Home (http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/LHCathome/) enable researchers to harness spare
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| computing power to do insane amounts of distributed number crunching. There are even
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| commercial efforts like CPUsage (http://cpusage.com/) and Plura Processing
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| (http://www.pluraprocessing.com/). One of issues with massively distributed computing is
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| that the network overhead limits the types of tasks that can be effectively distributed:
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| tasks that are easily broken into separate chunks that can be worked on independently. The
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| software clients download a data set, process it, and then upload results.<br/><br /> With
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| the power of gigabit internet, massively distributed computing could be applied to a much
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| wider set of scenarios. Perhaps systems that require constant communication among the
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| workers or where data sets cannot be broken into reasonably small sizes for computation.
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| I'm no expert in distributed computing and I don't have a specific idea yet, but this is
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| an area I think will be hugely empowered by the rise of superfast internet. I encourage
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| us all to discuss possible scenarios where this could be applied, or even methods to allow
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| arbitrary computation (like less expensive AWS EC2 spot instances for data processing)
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| without compromising the security of the end user. Maybe even client software that can
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| run on smartphones (at night, when charging and connected to home wifi). Millions of
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| surprisingly powerful smartphones are idle for a large portion of the night. With "big
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| data" being the buzzword that it currently is, I imagine there is a lot of potential
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| here.<br/><br /> I can add some specific ideas here soon, but I wanted to get the
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| discussion started and see what you all think.<br /><br /> NEEDS: This is less of an idea
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| and more of a starting point for idea discussion. It would be great if people more
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| familiar with distributed computing and "big data" can add their thoughts.<br /><br />
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| DISCUSSION: (your thoughts here...)
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| ===Team 5: New Opportunity for Community-Based Public Media-casting===
| | Those are just examples to get us rolling -- fill the etherpad up with your ideas and thoughts! |
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| Partner with other nonprofits/businesses. · Enter into “content sharing” arrangements
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| with partners in addition to the sharing of other resources. · Assume a leadership
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| position to develop a Community Media Center. Leverage deep digital library and high
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| quality production assets. · Share/rent its content production capability with other
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| nonprofits/businesses and New Media ventures that need multimedia support. · Develop new
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| revenue streams based on marketing this community resource. More deeply engage social
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| media platforms. Develop a mobile App that functions as a “content aggregator” for local
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| content produced not only by WTCI but others. NEEDS: Seriously talented coder(s). We have
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| an active volunteer board and professional staff eager to support this effort in a wide
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| variety of ways.
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