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SUMMARY:A California company is building out a distributed computing operation across connected devices in a small Canadian city, but technical challenges could stand in the way. 概要:加州的一个公司正在加拿大的一个小城里通过互联的设备建设一个分布式数据中心,但技术上的挑战会对其造成阻碍。 A California company has an ambitious plan to capitalize on all the idle compute cores in the small Canadian city of Stratford, Ontario, and make them work together as a distributed data center, according to an article that appeared Thursday on VentureBeat. 加州某一公司有一个让位于加拿大安大略省的斯特拉福德小镇中所有闲置处理器联合起来的雄心勃勃的计划,并让它们作为一个分布式数据中心来运作,这一消息来自于周二VentureBeat上的一篇文章。 The concept of distributed computing is not new. People in computer science circles have discussed it for decades. Implementations include Folding@home for medical research and SETI@home for discovering aliens. More recently, a Texas company came up with a way to harness compute power when gamers play certain games and pay users for compute cycles. 分布式计算的概念并不新鲜。计算机科学界已经对其讨论了数十年。其显著成就便是用于医药研究的Folding@home,以及搜寻外星人的SETI@home。最近,德克萨斯州的某公司想到了一个在玩家玩某一游戏时管理计算资源的方法,而这个方法会为用户的计算周期付费。 Still, if the project goes off without a hitch and spans not just personal computers but other connected devices as well, it would be an impressive feat. Success could cause people to rethink how, when and where data can be processed. It could even disrupt the data center construction industry. For now, though, some technical hurdles could lie ahead. 当然,如果这个项目联合的不仅仅是电脑而是还有其他互联的设备的话,那么这个项目将会是一个巨大的成功。成功能让人们反思什么样的,以及何时何处的数据可以被处理。这些数据同样能破坏数据中心的建设。尽管目前可能存在一些技术障碍。
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