Google告诉你旧手机能组云集群
人们平均每4年更换一次手机，导致每年有数亿部旧手机被丢弃，但这些设备仍可作为计算节点使用。Google与加州大学圣地亚哥分校（UCSD）正在研究将这些旧手机转化为“手机集群”用于云计算。通过延长设备生命周期，该方案可减少对原材料开采的需求，并充分利用制造过程中已产生的隐含碳排放。现代手机本身已具备较强的计算能力，使得这一构想具有可行性。
People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones d...
People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices. @Google in collabration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing “phone clusters”. Putting phones back in service in this way can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction, and taking advantage of the embodied carbon already incurred from manufacturing these devices, and modern phones actually are already quite powerful computers. Read more in the blog below ⬇️ Google Research @GoogleResearch Today on the blog, we discuss a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing”, which can directly reduce the environmental footprint of computing by avoiding the need for further raw material extraction. More → goo.gle/4aJe5vO 🔗 View Quoted Tweet 💬 11 🔄 23 ❤️ 197 👀 14324 📊 31 ⚡