Innovative solutions for network optimization and internet acceleration

Ok so I read an article that was new and innovative. I then went out and research it and found more information. I then thought wow this is the next generation of the internet. The first thing is how to put a business model together then I remember a commercial on TV regarding snow boarders. The gist of the commercial was "we weren’t just making a snow board we were inventing a new sport." Similar to this the person was not inventing anything new but putting together a new solution that created an awesome new way to deliver the new internet.

Now just to recap back in the early Ninety’s most people got access to the internet via a dial up 56Kbps connection, and for business and governments there were offering from Frame Relay, T1, and other commercial offering. The brought the speed to roughly 1.5 MBPS and the backbone was roughly 100 MBPS.

Now the internet has involved in terms of service offering bring larger bandwidths in Toronto Dial UP still prevails however it has been overtaken by DSL and Cable connections. Business our still relied on Frame Relay, T1, OC3, Dark Fibre any where from 1.5 all the way up to 40 GBPS or higher.

Now with today’s current technology CERN has come up with a network and servers speed that can be measured in Petaflop. A Petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed and can be expressed as a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. FLOPS are floating-point operations per second. Floating-point is considered to be a method of encoding real numbers within the limits of finite precision available on computers. Using floating-point encoding, extremely long numbers can be handled relatively easily.

So I hope that you are still with me regarding Petaflop. Petaflop is a huge number and we are still dealing with dialup connections with Internet. Today we are always looking for greater bandwidth to download or to capture information in order that our computers can process it. The architecture is either 2 tiers or 3 tiers. We always need more bandwidth grow because we our CPU are growing in our computers. As computer power increase so does the delivery system to the internet. But that is the way it is.

Now back to the guys from CERN. Well they built a supercomputer and use fibre network to connect the entire cluster computer estimated to be at 250,000 computer world wide to produce these speeds. The combination of all these computers and the dedicated fibre optic networks produces these types of speeds and the system itself. There isn’t a name for combining the internet and cluster computers to provide this type of unique service! So her goes I’ll name it Clustered Computer with Integrated Network or CCIN.

I read in one of the articles that all that is required to access this system is a simple 56K dialup line. Since the client doesn’t need CPU at it machine to process all you need is a monitor and input devices like speakers, keyboard and mouse and you have access Petaflop worth of computing power? But before you start jumping up and down the concept of the internet acts more like a mainframe than a PC. Your data is shared. So in laymen’s terms those MP3 wouldn’t be coming down the pipe anytime soon. You could only access them through your device. Basically the information is shared. What it sound like is that you would use X window technology to gain access to it. So will the next big thing be a whole bunch of X window appliances?

No, it gets better than this. So I figure hey with 802.11B you could have a lot of X windows devices running off a clustered of Linux boxes. So instead of everyone trying to download the latest jazz album maybe giving them access to a supercomputer would be better. So it doesn’t mater where you are all you need to get is an X window environment. That means you would give them Software as a Service. That means you could give them unlimited types of software to run and access. But the greatest part is the 802.11B Wi-Fi connection is all you ever going to need. (I laugh at myself at that last statement because it sure sound like Bill Gates saying that all you every going to need is 640 k.) No I think that was too much 56 kbps for should be enough for the next ten years.

But wait this gets much better. So before you go out and start building a supercomputer and offering services I figure I go and research if any companies are doing this. Sure enough my idea is not unique and that some companies are trying to do the same thing. Have a quick read on this service http://www.arteraturbo.com/main.asp?Nav_Bar=15 should we be building supercomputer for the wireless mesh? Yeah I think so!

So can you read the headline Wireless Mesh Speed break world record and exceed Petaflop speeds. Yeah having access to a supercomputer be neat what be better if you were mobile and had access to a supercomputer. Now I can see everyone going out and Googling HPC cluster open and viola they find the Rock.

I can hear my buddy from Vancouver say “Long Live Beowulf” (sort of inside joke that a movie was called Bewoulf and the first single system image has the same name.)