CloudBus gets boost from the Cloud Consortium

Reliable sources report that Google, Yahoo, Sun, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon form the American branch of the (very) secret Cloud Consortium (CloCon).

This group is reportedly working on the CloudBus, designed to connect the newest container computers (CloCompCont) to the Cloud.  The CloudBus includes components for data and energy flow.  The contactless data connection uses quantum-coupled pi-mesons, entangled at the factory for maximum data flow capacity and a reliability proportional to the reciprocal of Planck’s constant.  This means of course that every ConComp can communicate with any ConComp base using any of its pi-sets.  This is hot, I mean, cold stuff.  (This invention is expected to decrease the world demand for copper and gold by 15%.  Sell short now!)  Security measures are under consideration.

The most radical component of the CloudBus, however, is the EntropyBus, for handling energy flow in and out of the ConCompCont.  We know that a computer requires  a flow of organized energy (good old fashioned electromagnetic fields) as input, and produces a flow of disorganized energy (really old-fashioned heat) as output.  The goal is to maximize the amount of computation possible with the minimum of chaotic energy creation.  The CloCon intends to lobby for the repeal of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in order to further its goals.

Special allowances for virtual support, virtual updates, virtual bug-fixing will be provided by the VVM (virtually virtuous machines) that provide the platform for all computation.

International participation is substantial.  There is one Russian participating corporation and forty-two Chinese participants.  The EU has three academic committees studying the possibilities.  Translations will be available soon.

Update:  Microsoft has withdrawn from CloCon, annoucing their own version of the incipient standard CloudBus, calling it SilverLiningBus, which will be almost compatible. A compatibility license will available from their sales offices.

~ by Oz on 8 February 2009.