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Another independent call for a FreedomBox, more or less.<br>
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I have sent the author an email with lots of links and thoughts...
funnily enough he was my doctoral supervisor.<br>
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Russell<br>
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<td>[PRIVACY] [apfma] Can the mother of all supercomputers
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://theconversation.edu.au/can-the-mother-of-all-supercomputers-save-us-from-big-brother-10584">http://theconversation.edu.au/can-the-mother-of-all-supercomputers-save-us-from-big-brother-10584</a><br>
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Matthew Bailes<br>
12 November 2012, 8.11am AEST<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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Today Im annoyed at Facebook. Among the amazingly witty and
touching postings from my friends and Amnesty International are
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2012/08/02/facebook-adds-sponsored-stories-to-pages-you-may-like-mobile-module/"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">pages
you might like</a> and advertisements for things I dont
need, especially single women.</p>
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But on a happier note, Im thinking about the mother of all
supercomputers (and if theres one thing Ill always be grateful
to Saddam Hussein for, it was for introducing<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_all"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">into
the Western lexicon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the
expression, the mother of all
).</p>
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As I speak, the internet is enabling me to be simultaneously
sitting in on an international advisory board meeting from the
privacy of my own bedroom using a webcam, running jobs to look
for neutron stars on 57,344 processing cores on my new toy,
Swinburnes <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/supercomputing/green2/"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">Gstar
Supercomputer</a> (or what I like to call the beast) and of
course, thinking about this article.</p>
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I learnt long ago that when you rock up at a university and tell
people you are an astronomer it sounds a bit esoteric and
irrelevant, but when you say youre a supercomputer expert it
gains traction, funding and subsequent glory!</p>
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Why? Well fortunately, most senior bureaucrats in universities
like to invest in enabling infrastructure, and supercomputers
sound like serious, hard-core investments that will lead to
engineering and scientific glory.</p>
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Supercomputers can also be turned off at no cost, and because of
the wonders of<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accrualaccounting.asp"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">accrual
accounting</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>their
impact on the budget is minor.</p>
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Enter the beast</h2>
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At Swinburne we have an astonishingly-powerful supercomputer. It
has more than 100,000 cores, a 2,000-terabyte disk and
10,000GB of RAM all linked by 40 gigabit-per-second networking.</p>
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It is the sort of machine that brings a tear to an
astrophysicists eye. We can literally simulate the universe in
it, make movies, and find neutron stars in astonishingly
peculiar environments.</p>
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The beasts architecture and building blocks are not unlike
the machines used by Google and Facebook in large data centres.
It comprises about 150 enterprise-grade<a
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style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">GPU
servers</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on an
uninterruptable power supply in a custom machine room.</p>
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Over the next few years it will grind through Petabytes (1PB =
1024TB) of data and serve the Swinburne and wider Australian
astrophysical communities, courtesy of<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://astronomyaustralia.org.au/"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">Astronomy
Australia Limited</a>.</p>
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But the beast is but a mouse compared to the cumulative domestic
computational power plugged into the internet and owned by Mr
and Ms Average in their own homes.</p>
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And there are some computational problems, such as searching for
aliens, that are <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">embarrassingly
parallel</a> that is, a problem divisible into so many
independent parts that can all be run in parallel that Im
embarrassed to say how many a fact recognised by<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_about.php"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">the
geniuses</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>behind<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">SETI@home</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://boinc.berkeley.edu/"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">BOINC</a>.</p>
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The SETI@home project has used more than 3 million home
computers to look for aliens, and is the largest distributed
computing project ever devised. A computational marvel. A
triumph of software engineering.</p>
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And the current alien body count? Nil. Even in<span
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">Roswell</a>.
But even SETI@home is only using a tiny fraction of the mother
of all supercomputers, the global internet and every home PC on
the planet.</p>
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Facebook is watching</h2>
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So what other problems apart from<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">climate
research, cosmology, gravity and alien-hunting</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>map to this massively
distributed paradigm? Well, maybe Facebook?</p>
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Facebook houses a repository of everyones friends, postings,
photos etc. When you log in, Facebook builds a web page that
lists your friends' posts, their photos, and responses to your
friends' posts. It is an embarrassingly parallel problem with a
bit of data exchange.</p>
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It also works out from all your data what advertising you are
most likely to respond to and hits you with ads. It knows who
your friends are, and what you like. It spies on you to know
what to try and sell you.</p>
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It tracks you around the world. It is the modern version of Big
Brother.</p>
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I dont like that. Some people thought Facebook was worth almost
US$100 billion. I dont think it is and<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-stock-slides-lock-expires-141803895--finance.html"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">neither</a>,
apparently, does the market.</p>
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The algorithm required to build a web page is trivial compared
to alien-hunting. The storage capacity per user is tiny compared
to a typical users home storage, and as the need to push for
extra advertising revenue increases it is inevitable that people
will become alienated and want out.</p>
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Finally, unlike a bank, Facebook is about trivia, and if it
goes down" the world doesnt end. So it is a very safe
application to work on. Indeed if everyone who used Facebook
left their computers on 100% of the time, software to emulate
Facebooks core activities would be fairly simple to implement.</p>
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For each friend, a local application could bug all your friends'
computers for recent activity, and build up the relevant web
page for display without any market bias or promotional
activities. Bliss!</p>
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The problem is that most of us turn our computers off. So that
complicates any would-be programming model. An alternative is
therefore for users to lease space for their private data on
the cloud, and allow friends with an appropriate key to see
what you have been up to.</p>
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Another option might be to have a micro PC like the amazing 5
Watt<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs"
style="color:rgb(85,117,133);text-decoration:initial;outline:none;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-line;word-wrap:break-word">Raspberry
Pi</a>permanently online in your house that contains all of
your social media data.</p>
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The Raspberry Pi costs A$35, and only costs about 2c/day to run.</p>
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As users become increasingly uncomfortable with Big Brother
knowing things about them that theyd prefer were kept secret,
programmers will find ways to harness the mother of all
supercomputers the massively distributed global internet and
all the home computers that reside on it.</p>
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The community-run network<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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this for Facebook but other applications will follow.</p>
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When someone gets one right they might not discover aliens, but
the effect on our lives might be almost as profound.</p>
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