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    Another independent call for a FreedomBox, more or less.<br>
    <br>
    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
            save us from Big Brother?</td>
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          <td>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:07:28 +1100</td>
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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 I’m 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 don’t
        need, especially single women.</p>
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        But on a happier note, I’m thinking about the mother of all
        supercomputers (and if there’s one thing I’ll 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,
        Swinburne’s “<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 you’re 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
        astrophysicist’s 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 beast’s 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
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sgi.com/products/gpu/"
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>
      <p style="margin:0px 0px
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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 I’m
        embarrassed to say how many – a fact recognised by<span
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
          moz-do-not-send="true"
          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
          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
          moz-do-not-send="true"
          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
          moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.gridrepublic.org/"
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 everyone’s 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 don’t like that. Some people thought Facebook was worth almost
        US$100 billion. I don’t 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 user’s 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 doesn’t 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
        Facebook’s 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
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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">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 they’d 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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          class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is one attempt to do
        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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