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.
