{"id":380,"date":"2011-05-18T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-05-23T11:02:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T11:02:33","slug":"imdea-workshop-on-internet-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/2011\/05\/18\/imdea-workshop-on-internet-science\/","title":{"rendered":"IMDEA Workshop on Internet Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/events.networks.imdea.org\/content\/workshop-2011\/program\">here<\/a> for titles\/speakers and slides...<\/p>\n<p>So far Pablo's talk had some v. interesting stuff about\u00c2\u00a0scaling the twitter service - clever work on solving hotspots andoverloads in memcache\/mysql setup - reminded me of previous work on trying to get the IMDB system to scale - seems like these inverted databases are a pain in general, so a fundamental solution would be welcome...for those of you working on social net analysis, worry about (particularly un-self-declared) spambots in twitter - see Mowbray's talk - plus looking at Vattay'sstats talk is worthwhile<br \/>\nanyhow, I was reading this <a href=\"http:\/\/fisa.future-internet.eu\/index.php\/FIA_Research_Roadmap\">Future Internet Roadmap<\/a> and decided that Private Green Clouds is defintely the way to go (andwe are there yet, so that is good:-)<br \/>\nhere's the barking bit: why not put a data center in every car?<\/p>\n<p>rationale:1. future cars will be electric.2. its proposed that future electricity generation will incorporate a lot of micro-generation(certainly solar here in spain, and wind in uk etc etc)3. the power distribution net is not fit for \"uplink\" electricity in large amount, so...4. micro-generation is largely intermittent (esp. wind, but obviously solar is at least on\/off day\/nite)5. hence we need to do local distribution of micro-generated power6. or else we need to store micro-generated electricty<br \/>\npower solution=&gt; use electric cars as storage; to get an idea of scale, (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withouthotair.com\/\">Mackay's book<\/a>) cars could store about 30% of UK generated power -when we get to 100% of the carpool of the UK being electric...<br \/>\nso then where we plug cars in, why not also have a dataport too then instead of using meagre compute resource in someone's house, have a big-fat data center in the car(s) in a street - they can run off stored power when local production exceeds demand (or predicted (say nighttime) production\/stored exceeds local and car demand...<\/p>\n<p>the numbers should work very well...you can easily smooth day\/night variation, but also short term wind variation...<br \/>\nbefore you all shout, one problem is that the batteries are really designed for a relatively small number of discharge cycles - however, some technologies (hydrogen fuel cell etc) would fixthat<br \/>\nso this needs 2 things.1 a smaller unit for data center2 a plan to do fiber-to-the-charging-point....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See here for titles\/speakers and slides&#8230; So far Pablo&#8217;s talk had some v. interesting stuff about\u00c2\u00a0scaling the twitter service &#8211; clever work on solving hotspots andoverloads in memcache\/mysql setup &#8211; reminded me of previous work on trying to get the IMDB system to scale &#8211; seems like these inverted databases are a pain in general, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,32,33,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}